JAN. 18.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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Date of birth ;
Rate of contribution ;
Compensation under Civil Service Act, 1866, to which entitled ;
Remarks.

17. Any contributor may at any time submit to the Board a certificate of marriage, or of the birth of any of his children, in order that such may be recorded by the Secretary, who shall thereupon issue a certificate that such dates are recorded and acknowledged as correct, and it shall not thereafter be necessary to produce any evidence upon those points when claims upon the Fund arise.

18. (1.) All payments made to the Postmaster-General to the credit of the Fund on account of contributors’ contributions or fines shall be accompanied by a schedule, signed by the officer making the payment, and setting forth in detail in respect of each contributor concerned the following particulars :—

Registered number ;
Name ;
Department ;
Amount of contribution (or fine).

(2.) On receipt of any such payment the Postmaster-General shall forthwith place the amount to the credit of the Fund, and forward the schedule, with his receipt for the total amount indorsed at foot thereof, direct to the Secretary to the Board.

(3.) The Postmaster-General shall similarly endorse and forward to the Secretary to the Board advices received, with payments under the Act.

(4.) The Postmaster-General shall, at least once in each month, pay to the Public Trustee the whole of the moneys then standing to the credit of the Fund in the Post Office Account.

(5.) The Public Trustee shall advise the Secretary to the Board of every payment made by the Postmaster-General to the credit of the Fund, and whenever any interest is credited to the Fund, the details and amount of such interest.

19. Every contributor whose salary is temporarily stopped owing to ill health, or who is on leave of absence without salary, shall,—

(a.) For the first three months during which his salary is stopped contribute at the ordinary rate payable by him, and for the balance of any such period of stoppage, contribute one-third of the rate otherwise payable by him, and thereafter at the ordinary rate of contribution ; or

(b.) Cease to contribute to the Fund while his salary is so stopped, and thereafter shall contribute by way of deduction from his salary an additional amount, being not less than his ordinary contribution, until the additional contributions so paid are equal in amount to the payments which would have been made had he elected to contribute under the last preceding paragraph.

In any case where the salary of a contributor has been temporarily stopped owing to ill health, the Board may by resolution, on application being made to it, modify this regulation with regard to payment of contributions in such manner as it thinks fit :

Provided that in the event of the retirement or death of any contributor who has elected to come under clause (b) hereof the arrears (if any) of payments shall be deducted from any allowances payable out of the Fund on account of the retirement or death of such contributor.

20. (1.) The head of a Department shall report to the Secretary to the Board the date when the salary of a contributor employed in his Department is temporarily stopped on account of ill health, and again when payment thereof is resumed. He shall also similarly report as to a contributor on leave of absence without salary.

(2.) In each case he shall state under which paragraph of the preceding regulation the contributor has elected to contribute.

21. From every payment made to a contributor to the Fund whose salary or wage is computed at a daily or hourly rate, and who is not paid for time during which he is not actually employed, there shall be deducted, under section 29 of the Act, an amount equal to the amount which would have been contributed by him if he had been actually employed during the whole of the period for which payment is made :

Provided that no deduction shall be made under this regulation from payments made in respect of overtime.

22. In the event of a contributor who has retired from the Public Service on a retiring-allowance being re-employed as provided for under subsection (1) or (2) of section 37 of the Act, it shall be the duty of the

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