PUBLIC SERVANTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 143, 13 December 1940, Page 6

PUBLIC SERVANTS

RETIREMENT DURING THE WAR Under regulations issued last night, no person who is a contributor to the Public Service Superannuation Fund or the Government Railways Superannuation Fund shall, during the con tinuance of the present war, be entitled to retire from the service on superannuation without the consent of: <1) In the case of a contributor to the Public Service Superannuation Fund, the appointing authority of the Department or office in which -such person is employed; (2) in the case of a contributor to the Teachers' Superan nuation Fund, the Minister of Education; or <3) in the case of a contributor to the Government Railways Superannuation Fund, the appointing authority under section 5 of the Government Railways Amendment Act, 1936.

The regulations also stipulate that where any person who, but for the provision of these regulations, would be entitled at any time during the continuance of the war to retire from the service on superannuation is retained in the service, he shall not be obliged to contribute to the superannuation fund in respect of the salary received by him for the period during which he is so retained. In any case the period shall not be taken into account in computing the amount of retiring allowance. The rights of persons to retiring allowance will also not be prcjudically affected by reason of their retention in the service.