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" Casual employe " means any railway employe who may have been engaged or taken on by the day or hour, either for emergency work or for any special job, by any dulyauthorised officer of the Government railways open for traffic, or as an apprentice, or on probation " Eailway " or " railways " means the New Zealand Government railways open for traffic. 3. All persons employed on the management or working of the railways at the date of passing of this Act, and who have been employed thereon in pursuance of " The Government Eailways Act, 1887," in any capacity, continuously for not less than two years previously, shall for the purposes of this Act be deemed to be permanent employes, and their whole time of service on the railways, whether in the service of the colony or under " The Govenment Eailways Act, 1887," shall be counted in computing allowances under this Act. 4. There shall be established a trust fund to be called " The Insurance Eund." 5. The purposes to which such fund shall be applied shall be for the benefit of permanent employes who contribute to the said fund, in the following respects : — (a.) The payment at death, to each permanent employe's representatives, of a sum not exceeding one year's pay of such employe. (6.) The payment of allowances to permanent employes upon the termination of their services on the railways. (c ) The payment of half-pay allowance to permanent employes absent from duty from sickness or accident. (d.) The payment of refunds of contributions. (c.) The expenses of administering this Act. 6. The Insurance Eund shall be made up of— (1) All fines and penalties levied upon railway employes accrued at the date at which this Act comes into operation or levied thereafter ■~ (2.) Sums to be contributed by employes, as follows —■ During the service of each permanent employe on the railways, for each such employe the nominal rate of whose pay does not exceed the rate of four shillings land sixpence per working day, the sum of one shilling per week shall be paid into the Insurance Fund, and for each permanent employe whose nominal rate of pay exceeds four shillings and sixpence per working day, for each additional sixpence per working day the sum of twopence per week in addition shall be paid, into the Insurance Eund, and all such sums shall be paid into the Insurance Fund four-weekly as nearly as may be during each year from the sums from time to time appropriated by Parliament for working the railways, being deducted from the pay or wages of such permanent employes, and such payments shall form a part of the expenses of working the railways (3.) Any other sum, if any, which Parliament may see fit to appropriate for such purpose. 7 Every person who is appointed a permanent employe after the passing of this Act shall contribute to the Insurance Fund. 8. Every person who m terms of section three of this Act is deemed to be a permanent employe at the date of passing of this Act shall have the option of becoming a contributor to the Insurance Fund and of participating in the benefits of this Act, subject to the provisions thereof Provided that such employe lodges a claim in the form of

Present employes.

Insurance Fund established. Purposes of fund.

Sources of fund.

Contributions by new permanent employes. Contributions optional with present employes.