✨ Old-age Pensions Payment Procedures
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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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Postmaster of the paying office. After satisfying himself that the advice is in order, and having indorsed the certificate, the paying Postmaster will remit the amount (accompanied by Acct. Form 365), either in cash or by cheque, direct to the pensioner, in a registered letter, enclosing the certificate therein.
1013. The number of the registered letter and the office of delivery must be entered on the back of the advice in the space provided for the purpose.
1014. The file of applications (Acct. Form 362) should be kept at the money-order office which pays and remits the instalments each month.
1015. Postmasters at money-order offices who deal with this class of pension-payments must see that the advices are posted for signature each month directly on receipt, in order to insure payment within the due period.
1016. The authority to pay an instalment after the expiration of period allowed for payment will invariably be stamped upon the face of the advice. Lapsed (unclaimed) instalments are therefore not payable unless the advices are so stamped.
1017. When paying specially authorised instalments, or amounts due in respect of deceased pensioners, the Postmaster must require the payee in each case to produce the Registrar’s order and the pension-certificate covering the period of payment. Upon the back of the latter the payment must be entered, as required by Rule 992.
1018. In the case of an instalment paid on behalf of a deceased pensioner the pension-certificate must be retained by the paying officer and attached to the advice.
1019. The period allowed for payment of specially authorised instalments is two calendar months from the date of the issue of special authority.
1020. In the case of instalments of pensions paid under special authorities, and of those which appear in the accounts of a month other than the one for which the instalments are due, the name of the month quoted on the advice must be entered in the Statements of Old-age Pensions paid, in the column headed “Remarks.”
1021. Towards the close of each pension year Postmasters will receive from Deputy Registrars the certificates for the next pension year, to be issued to pensioners or their agents, if duly authorised, on surrendering the expired ones. The signatures of pensioners able to write must be obtained in the margin of the new certificate. The signatures of agents or the marks of pensioners unable to write need not be asked for.
1022. In case the new certificate is not ready for issue when the
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