898

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 20

20. For the purposes of section 15 of the Act heads of Departments shall ascertain the amount of compensation (if any) to which each contributor in their Department would be entitled under “The Civil Service Act, 1866,” on the date of his joining the Fund had his services been dispensed with on that date, and notify the amount of such compensation to the Secretary to the Board, who shall duly record the same after it has been verified by the Audit office.

21. Any contributor appealing to the Board under section 16 of the Act shall forward full particulars of his case in writing, addressed to the Secretary to the Board, and may, subject to the consent of the Board, appear in person before the Board in support of his case. The Board shall have full power to call for the production of all papers necessary in connection with a case.

22. Every notice of intention to retire from the Public Service under section 18 of the Act shall be forwarded in writing through the head of the Department in which the contributor is employed.

23. The head of a Department shall notify the Secretary to the Board of all applications received by him for voluntary retirement, and of all notifications where a Minister is retiring a contributor, and also of the death of a contributor.

BENEFITS OF THE FUND.

24. The Secretary shall furnish the Board with a report upon the case of every contributor claiming on the Fund, and such report shall contain the following information, viz.:

Name of contributor;
Position in the service;
Age;
Cause of retirement;
Date of retirement;
Length of service;
Total amount contributed to Fund;
Average salary on which retiring-allowance is to be computed under section 22;
Amount of retiring-allowance to which entitled;
Particulars of moneys (if any) due under section 14 or 15.

25. He shall similarly, so far as the circumstances apply, advise the Board with respect to contributors who retire “medically unfit,” or before becoming entitled to a retiring-allowance, or whose services are dispensed with.

26. With respect to claims on the Fund arising upon the death of a contributor, the Secretary shall investigate the same and report thereon to the Board.

27. The Board shall at its first meeting after receipt of the necessary particulars consider such cases as have been reported upon, and grant allowances in accordance with the terms of the Act, and determine the date from which the first payment in each case shall be made.

28. In the event of the date of a contributor’s retirement falling on a day other than the last day of a month, then the first instalment of his retiring-allowance shall be payable in respect of the balance of the month and thereafter at the end of each month.

29. Allowances granted to widows and children under sections 25 and 26 of the Act shall be due and payable on the last day of each month, and, except as to the first and last payment, shall be in equal monthly instalments of £1 10s. for the widow and £1 1s. 8d. for each child.

30. The Secretary shall forthwith after the Board’s decision advise the contributor or beneficiary of the same, and where necessary require him to elect whether he accepts a retiring-allowance or a refund of his contributions in lieu thereof.

31. In respect of every contributor who becomes a claimant on the Fund, it shall be the duty of the head of the Department in which he is employed to prepare such statements as to the service of the said contributor, or the amounts of salary paid to him, or other like particulars as may be required by the Board. The accuracy of every such statement shall be certified to by the person by whom it is prepared.

32. In respect of every contributor who retires medically unfit, and in respect of every claim arising on the Fund in respect of the death of a contributor, it shall be the duty of the head of the Department to furnish a certificate with particulars (if any) as to whether any compensation has been paid or is payable by the Crown or the Department under the provisions of “The Workers’ Compensation for Accidents Act, 1900,” or any Act amending or substituted for that Act.

33. The receipt of any person to whom the Board may direct any sum accruing in respect to benefits derivable under the Act to be paid shall be an absolute discharge to the fund of all further liability in respect of the amount so paid.

34. Statistical information required by the Actuary for the purpose of valuing the Fund shall be kept by the Secretary to the Board in respect of each contributor, and for this purpose it shall be the duty of the head of every Department to furnish any information possessed by that Department, and also to obtain from each contributor employed in his Department such statistical information regarding his family or otherwise as may from time to time be required. The Secretary to the Board shall obtain like information from each contributor in receipt of a retiring-allowance.

ELECTION OF MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.

35. The Secretary to the Board shall be the Returning Officer for the election of the elective members of the Board.

36. There shall be prepared by the Returning Officer two separate alphabetical voting-lists, to wit,—

(a.) One of all contributors who belong to the Post and Telegraph Department;

(b.) One of all contributors who belong to other Departments of the public service;

and such lists shall be open to inspection by contributors at all reasonable times.

37. The Returning Officer shall from time to time add to the respective lists the names of all contributors who become entitled to be enrolled thereon, and shall remove therefrom the names of all persons who cease to be so entitled:

Provided that the validity of any election shall not be questioned on the ground that a name wrongly appears in a list or has been omitted therefrom.

38. For every election the voting-lists shall be closed on the day on which nominations close, and shall remain closed until the election is completed.

39. Any contributor may, by notice addressed to the Returning Officer posted or delivered so as to reach the Returning Officer not less than seven days before the lists are closed, object to any voting-list on some specified ground, and the Returning Officer shall forthwith after the receipt of any such objection inquire into and dispose of the same. The contributor aforesaid may appeal to the Minister of Internal Affairs against the decision of the Returning Officer, and the Minister’s decision shall be final.

40. Every extraordinary election shall be held on a date to be fixed by the Returning Officer, being not later than the fiftieth day after the vacancy occurs.

41. Not less than forty days before any election the Returning Officer shall by advertisement in the New Zealand Gazette, or otherwise, publicly notify in respect of the election—

(a.) The day on which the election will be held, and the hour at which the poll will be closed;

(b.) The number of vacancies;

(c.) The day and hour for the closing of nominations, being not more than twenty days before the day of election.

42. No contributor shall be eligible for election unless he is nominated in writing by at least two other contributors.

43. Every nomination-paper shall be in the form or to the effect following:—

The Returning Officer (being the Secretary to the Board, Wellington).

I, [Name and address], being a contributor to the Public Service Superannuation Fund, and employed in the Department, do hereby nominate [Name and address] as a candidate for election to the Public Service Superannuation Board at the election to be held on the day of 19 .

Dated this day of , 19 .

Candidate’s consent to be subscribed at foot of nomination-paper:—

I hereby consent to my nomination.

[Signature of candidate nominated.]

44. If the nomination-paper does not bear the written consent of the candidate nominated, such consent may be given by him to the Returning Officer before the nominations are closed; and any nomination-paper shall be void if the consent of the candidate nominated therein is not duly given as aforesaid.

45. If in either division of the public service the number of persons nominated is not more than the number of vacancies to be filled, the persons nominated shall be declared to be duly elected; but if the number of persons nominated exceeds the number of vacancies to be filled, a ballot of the contributors in that section shall be taken.

46. In any case in which a ballot becomes necessary the Returning Officer shall, immediately after the nominations are closed, prepare and post to each contributor through the