Public Service (Amendment) Act 1912 (NSW)

Act No. 56, 1912.

An Act to make provision for gratuities for certain persons in the Lunacy and Prisons Depar tment ; to amend the Public Service (Amendment) Act, 1910 ; and for purposes consequent thereon or incidental thereto. [6th December, 1912.]

ment) Act, 1912."

Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative

authority of the same, as follows :—

1 . This Act may be cited as the "Pub l i c Service (Amend-

2 . The following section is inserted next after section seventy-

one of the Public Service Act, 1902 :—

7 1 A . If the services of any person permanently employed

in the public service are dispensed with by the Inspector-General of the Insane or the Comptroller-General of Prisons otherwise than for an offence, then if such person was employed in the public service before and on the twenty-third day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, but was not a contributor to the superannuation account, such person shall receive a gratuity not exceeding one month's pay for each year of service from the date of his permanent appointment, and a fortnight's pay in respect of each year of temporary service, such gratuity to be calculated on the average of his salary during the whole term of his employment, and to he payable only in respect of service prior to the said day.

3 . Subsection fourteen (b) of section eight of iho Public • Service (Amendment) Act, 1010, is amended by adding thereto the ' following proviso :—

" Provided that, in the case of officers appointed to carry out the provisions of the Western Lands Acts, such board shall consist of a commissioner of the Western Land Board of New South Wales, a member of the Public Service Board, and the head of the branch."