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enable him to attend meetings of the Board: Provided that any elective member of the Board being unable for any pressing reason to attend any meeting shall notify the Secretary accordingly, and the Board may grant him leave of absence from that meeting.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE FUND.

10. Any person who is a contributor to the Fund under the provisions of subsection (2) of section 26 of the said Act and entitled under the Civil Service Act, 1866, to receive compensation for loss of office shall, when his compensation becomes payable, pay into the Fund an amount equal to the difference between the compensation to which he would have been entitled on the 30th June, 1908, and the amount of compensation as at the date when he became a contributor. In the case of claims arising under section 32 (f) of the Act, it shall be a condition that no greater payment out of the Fund shall be made than if the officer had become a contributor on the 30th day of June, 1908.

11. All persons who are employed hereafter in permanent positions on probation, under agreement that if their appointment is made permanent it is to date from the time of their entering the Service, shall become contributors as from the date of their appointment being made permanent.

12. The Permanent Head of each Department shall supply the Secretary to the Board with a statement showing the rate of salary or wages, annual or otherwise, of each contributor in his Department at the date of joining the Fund, and shall also advise the Secretary to the Board immediately the salary of a contributor is altered, giving particulars of alteration and date from which it takes effect, and in like manner shall report when the salary of a contributor is reduced by reason of age or infirmity, or otherwise, and shall supply such further information as the Secretary to the Board may require.

13. (1.) It shall be the duty of the Permanent Head of every Department to notify the Secretary to the Board forthwith of every permanent appointment hereafter made in his Department, giving the following particulars (as to the correctness of which he shall first satisfy himself) in regard to each such person:—

Full name:
Date of birth:
Name of Department:
Position:
Date of appointment—temporary, ; permanent, :
Salary per annum:
Whether bachelor, spinster, husband, wife, widower, or widow:
Date of birth of wife (if living):
Date of birth of each child then living and under the age of fourteen years.

(2.) In each such case it shall be the duty of the Permanent Head of the Department to cause to be made the proper deduction provided for under section 29 of the Act, and the Controller and Auditor-General shall not pass the salary of any such officer unless the deduction is made. This regulation shall also apply to all payments of salaries in advance.

14. The Permanent Head of every Department shall notify the Secretary to the Board of any transfer and of the date thereof, and supply any other particulars required.

15. Any contributor having a break in his service and claiming to count continuous service in the terms of section 49 of the Public Service Classification and Superannuation Amendment Act, 1908, shall make written application to the Board in the form hereinafter set forth, and it shall be the duty of the Permanent Head of his Department to certify on such application that the particulars stated are correct.

The Public Service Classification and Superannuation Act, 1908.

APPLICATION TO COUNT CONTINUOUS SERVICE UNDER SECTION 49 OF THE PUBLIC SERVICE CLASSIFICATION AND SUPERANNUATION AMENDMENT ACT, 1908.

Name in full (surname and Christian name):
Department:
Date of first joining Service:
Period or periods of broken service, giving exact dates, from and to:
I, , hereby apply to have my service counted as continuous from , and do hereby declare that the above particulars are true and correct; and I further declare in respect of the period of service antecedent to such break that I received no pension, compensation, retiring-allowance, or refund of contributions, and that such break was due to , and was not the result of any misconduct on my part.

Dated at , this day of , 19 . [Signature.]

I hereby certify that the official records of this Department show the above particulars to be true and correct.

[Signature of Permanent Head of Department.]
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[Date.]