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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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month of December in each and every year payment of retiring-allowances
shall be made on and after the twenty-second day of that month.

33. Allowances granted to widows and children under sections 42 and
    43 of the Act shall be due and payable on the last day of each month:
    Provided that when the last day of the month falls on a Sunday payment of
    the allowances shall be made on the preceding day: Provided also that in
    the month of December in each and every year payment of the allowances
    shall be made on and after the twenty-second day of that month; and,
    except as to the first and last payment, such allowances shall be paid in
    equal monthly instalments of £2 11s. 8d. for the widow and £2 3s. 4d. for
    each child.

34. 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.

35. 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.

36. 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 Per-
    manent 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, if necessary, like information from each contributor
    in receipt of a retiring-allowance.

ELECTION OF MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.

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

38. (1) There shall be prepared by the Returning Officer separate
    alphabetical voting-lists, to wit,—
    (a) Of all contributors who belong to the Post and Telegraph
    Department;
    (b) Of all contributors who belong to the Police Force;
    (c) Of all contributors who belong to the other Departments of
    the Public Service;
    and such lists shall be open to inspection by contributors at all reason-
    able times.

(2) 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.

39. 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.

40. 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 objections 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, and the
    Returning Officer shall thereupon make the amendment or correction
    (if any) consequent upon such decision.

41. Every extraordinary election shall be held on a date to be fixed
    by the Returning Officer, being not later than the sixtieth day after the
    date upon which he received notification of any vacancy having occurred.

42. Not less than fifty days before any election the Returning Officer
    shall by advertisement in the New Zealand Gazette publicly notify in
    respect of the election—
    (a) The day and hour for the closing of nominations, being not
    more than thirty days before the day of election;
    (b) The number of vacancies;
    (c) The day on which the election, if necessary, will be held, and
    the hour at which the poll will be closed, which shall be
    5 p.m. of that day.
    (d) The division in the Public Service for which the vacancy or
    vacancies occur.

43. No contributor shall be eligible for election unless he is nominated
    in writing by at least two other contributors belonging to the same division
    of the Public Service as that of which the candidate is a member.