Customs (Officers) Act, 1881

Provision for employment by Customs of officers and clerks heretofore employed on bills of entry.

2. The Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Customs with the consent of the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury may take into permanent employment any officer or clerk heretofore employed by the directors of the Customs Benevolent Fund in connexion with the publication of bills of entry, and any officer or clerk so taken into permanent employment shall be deemed to be in the permanent Civil Service of the State in like manner as if he had been admitted into the same with a certificate from the Civil Service Commissioners, and shall be entitled to receive remuneration and superannuation allowance accordingly; and further, shall be entitled, for the purpose of superannuation allowance, to count his past years of continuous service under the said directors as if they were years of service in the permanent Civil Service of the State.