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41. If any officer appointed to the Civil Service prior to the passing of the said Act is dismissed therefrom under the provisions of section twenty-five of this Act, he shall lose all right to compensation for loss of office; but the Minister may, on the recommendation of the Board, direct that the whole or any part thereof shall be paid to him, or to trustees for the benefit of his wife and children. 42. Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Act, — (1.) The Public Trustee shall forthwith pay any officer on retirement from the Service, or in case of his death shall pay his personal representatives, the amount then standing to his credit in the Public Trust Office : (2.) No assignment, charge, or other disposition, made by any officer of moneys so standing to his credit in the Public Trust Office shall be valid or effectual in law or in equity; nor shall any such moneys be attachable or liable to be taken in execution by the process of any Court, or be available for distribution among the creditors of such officer in case of his bankruptcy : (3.) The Government Insurance Commissioner shall forthwith pay any officer, on retirement from the Service, the surrender value of his policy (if any) effected under this Act: (4.) The Colonial Treasurer shall issue and pay all sums required by this Part of this Act to be paid out of the Consolidated Fund without further appropriation by Parliament. Miscellaneous. 43. This Act shall not affect the operation of "The Post and Telegraph Classification and Begulation Act, 1890," or any Act in amendment thereof, or any regulation now or hereafter in force thereunder; but the officers of the Post and Telegraph Department shall be subject to this Act and the regulations thereunder in all matters and to the full extent in which the latter do not conflict with the first-mentioned Act or regulations. But the Governor by Order in. Council may bring all such officers entirely under this Act, as from a day to be notified in such Order ; and in such case, from and after the day last aforesaid, "The Post and Telegraph Classification and Begulation Act, 1890," and "The Post and Telegraph Classification and Begulation Act Amendment Act, 1891," shall be repealed. 44. The Governor from time to time, by Order in Council, may bring under Part 111. of this Act any or all the classes of persons hereunder mentioned, and may prescribe regulations for the adaptation of the aforesaid Part of this Act, with such modifications or limitations thereof as may be required for such adaptation to the circumstances of each class of such persons, or to the respective ages of the persons in any such class : (1.) All members of the Police Force ; (2.) All school-teachers under " The Education Act, 1877 ; " (3.) All railway servants in permanent employ as such; (4.) All persons permanently employed in the Government Printing Office; (5.) All housekeepers, messengers, and gardeners in the permanent employment of the Government; (6.) All warders of prisons, lunatic asylums or sanatorium attendants, criers of Court, bailiffs, lighthouse-keepers, boatmen, labourers, and other persons in the permanent employment of the Government: And the Governor, by Order in Council, may also from time to time bring any one or more of such classes of persons or the whole of them entirely under this Act, whereupon all persons within any class so mentioned in any such Order in Council shall be deemed to be officers of the Civil Service.

The Government Insurance Commissioner to the Honourable the Premier. Government Insurance Office, Wellington, 29th April, 1892. Beperring to the conversations which I have had with you on the question of whether the Government Insurance Dejoartment would be prepared to construct and administer a scheme providing pensions and insurances for members of the Civil Service, I now beg to report that I have consulted with the Actuary of the Department on the subject, and he has, in accordance with my instructions, prepared the synopsis of a scheme which I respectfully submit herewith for your consideration. J. H. Bichardson, The Hon. the Premier. Government Insurance Commissioner.

CIVIL SEEVICE PENSION SCHEME. (A Brief Description of a Scheme proposed by the Actuary of the Insurance Department.) 1. Those Civil servants who entered the Service before the passing of the Act of 1871, being already provided for, shall not be required to submit to the provisions of this scheme, but it shall be optional for them to do so. 2. Those Civil servants now paying as much as 5 per cent, of their salaries to insurance offices shall not be compelled to enter the scheme, but they may do so if they wish. 3. Apart from those referred to in clauses 1 and 2, it shall be compulsory for all others to join the scheme, with a few exceptions —viz., those who are of such advanced age that they could not obtain any substantial benefits: these are dealt with in clause 9.

Membershipoptional in some cases,

Compulsory in others.

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