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Leave of absence. Furlough. Repeal of Acts. Existing claims reserved. New Zealand Company' s officers Retirement. Superannuation allowance to present officers. Officers retiring may be required to continue. Retirement on ill health. Forfeiture of allowance in certain cases. Rates of wtitry and allowance. Computation of allowances. Allowance to officer disabled in performance of duty. Allowance to relatives of officer killed in discharge of duty. Gratuity to widow or children Warrant of allowance. Bounty of Parliament not restrained. <

proceedings the Governor in Council may refer the matter to the Board constituted by section ten of this Act to inquire as to the truth of such charge and such Board shall have authority to hear receive and examine evidence and shall after fully hearing the case report to the Governor in Council their opinion thereon. 26. The Responsible Minister of every Department may at such times as maybe convenient grant to every officer leave of absence for recreation for any period or periods not exceeding in the whole four weeks in each year and in cases of illness or other pressing necessity grant such extended leave not exceeding twelve months and on such terms as he thinks fit. 27. The Governor may grant to any officer in the Civil Service of at least ten years continuous service twelve months' leave of absence and to any officer of lesser period of service any time not exceeding six months' leave of absence on half salary. Part V. — Superannuation and Allowances. 28. The Acts respectively intituled " The Civil Service Superannuation Act 1858 " and " The Civil Service Amendment Act 1801 " are hereby repealed save and provided that nothing in this Act shall prejudice or affect the rights under those Acts or either of them of persons appointed to offices before the passing of this Act. 29. Whereas the New Zealand Company effected the early colonisation of a large portion of New Zealand and was for some time entrusted by the Imperial Parliament with the administration of the Waste Lands of the Crown in the then Province of New Munster in this Colony officers and other persons who have been in the employment of that Company and who are now in the Civil Service of the Colony shall be entitled to reckon in the computation of their retiring allowance the time during which they were in the employment of such Company. 30. When any officer after the passing of this Act (except as hereinafter provided) has attained the full age of sixty years he shall thereupon retire from active service upon a superannuation allowance. 31. Any officer who at the passing of this Act has attained or within ten years thereafter shall have attained the age of sixty years if or as soon as he shall have been ten years in the Civil Service of New Zealand and if he has not received any other compensation or retiring allowance in respect of such service shall retire from active service on an annual allowance of half the average annual salary received by him during the two years preceding his superannuation. 32. The Governor in Council may nevertheless require any officer who would otherwise retire as aforesaid notwithstanding his age to continue to perform his duties. 33. When any officer desires to retire from active service and has not attained the full age of sixty years if he produce medical evidence satisfactory to the Governor in Council that he is incapable from infirmity of mind or body to discharge the duties of his office and that such infirmity is likely to be permanent the Governor in Council may permit such officer to retire accordingly upon a superannuation allowance as hereinafter provided. 34. If the Governor in Council require any officer to resume his duties in his former office or in any other office for which he is qualified and if such officer be in such a state of health as to be able to perform such duties and if he decline to undertake such duties or neglect duly to perform the same such officer shall forfeit his right to the superannuation allowance which had been granted to him and in case any person enjoying any superannuation or retiring allowance under this Act shall be appointed to fill any office in the Civil Service every such allowance shall cease to be paid for any period subsequent to such appointment if the annual amount of the profits of the office to which he shall be appointed shall be equal to those of the office formerly held by him and in case they shall not be equal to those of his former office then no more of such superannuation allowance shall be paid to him than what with the salary of his new appointment shall be equal to that of his former office. 35. Every superannuated officer (except as hereinbefore expressly provided) whether his remuneration be computed by day pay weekly wages or annual salary shall receive in respect of such superannuation the following annual allowance (that is to say) after ten years' service and under eleven years' ten-sixtieths of the average annual salary received by him during three years preceding his superannuation after eleven and under twelve years' service eleven-sixtieths of such annual salary and in like manner for each additional year of service an addition to his annual allowance of one-sixtieth of such salary until he has completed the full term of service of forty years but the total amount of any superannuation allowance shall in no case exceed forty-sixtieths of the salary on which the allowance is computed. 36. If any officer without his own default and in the active discharge of his public duty receives such bodily injury as to incajmcitate him from the discharge of his duties the Governor in Council may grant to such officer an allowance not exceeding his then rate of salary. 37. If any officer shall be killed or die from bodily injury received without his own default in the active discharge of his public duty the Governor in Council may grant to the widow or children or at his discretion to any other relations of such officer an allowance not exceeding one year's pay at the average annual salary he was receiving during the two years preceding his death. 38. If any officer shall die while in the public service the Governor in Council may grant to his widow or children or to such persons as the Governor may direct in trust on her or their behalf a gratuity not exceeding two months' pay at his then rate of salary for each year of service Provided that such gratuity shall not exceed one year's salary. 39. When any superannuation or other allowance or gratuity is granted under this Act the causes of the granting thereof shall be set forth in the warrant granting the same. 40. Nothing herein contained shall be taken to prevent the Governor from recommending to Parliament any allowance or gratuity in consideration of any special services rendered by the officers entitled thereto or of any other special circumstances.

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