Feb. 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 327

17. Any contributor may at any time submit to the Board a certificate of his 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 to the Fund on account of contributors’ contributions and fines shall be made to the Postmaster-General.

(2) Each payment 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 :—

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

(3) A copy of such schedule shall be forwarded by the officer making the payment direct to the Secretary to the Board.

(4) On receipt of any such payment the Postmaster-General shall forthwith place the amount to the credit of the Fund in the Post Office Account, endorse on the schedule his receipt for the total amount thereof, and shall, at such periods as may be agreed upon, forward such schedules to the Secretary to the Board, together with a statement of all amounts received and paid by him on behalf of the Fund.

(5) The Postmaster-General shall, when requested, pay into the Bank of New Zealand, at the North End Branch, Wellington, to the credit of the Public Service Superannuation Fund Account the whole or any part of the moneys then standing to the credit of the Fund in the Post Office Account.

(6) The Public Trustee shall pay into the Bank of New Zealand, at the North End Branch, Wellington, to the credit of the Public Service Superannuation Fund Account any moneys received by him on account of the said Fund, and shall advise the Secretary to the Board whenever any such moneys are credited to the Fund, and shall also advise the Secretary as to the details and amount of such moneys.

19. (1) Every contributor whose salary is temporarily stopped on the ground of ill health shall—

(a) For the first three months of any such period contribute at the ordinary rate payable by him, and for the balance of such period at one-third of such ordinary rate, and thereafter at the ordinary rate of contribution ; or

(b) Cease to contribute to the Fund while his salary is so stopped, and thereafter 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 :

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

(2) In any case where the salary of a contributor is or has been temporarily stopped as aforesaid the Board may by resolution modify or vary the terms of payment of contributions under this regulation in such manner as it thinks fit.

20. (1) Every contributor whose salary is temporarily stopped for any other reason than ill health, or who is for any period on leave of absence without salary or at a reduced salary, shall continue to contribute to the fund at the ordinary rate theretofore payable by him : Provided that when a contributor is granted special leave of absence without pay for a period exceeding three consecutive months and such contributor’s contributions are not paid during such leave of absence, the contributor shall be charged interest, at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum on the amount outstanding from month to month, such interest to be compounded half-yearly.

(2) If any such contributor is at his retirement in arrear with the payment of his contributions, such arrears shall be deducted from any retiring-allowance payable out of the Fund on account of the retirement of such contributor.

21. (1) The Permanent 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 the ground of ill health, and again when payment thereof is resumed. He shall also similarly report as to a contributor whose salary is temporarily stopped for any other reason