Superannuation Act, 1909

Application existing male civil servants.

3.(1) Subject to regulations made by the Treasury, the Treasury may allow any male civil servant who has entered the service before the date of the passing of this Act, and who at that date is under sixty years of age, to adopt the provisions of this Act, and in such case there may be granted to him or his legal personal representatives such superannuation and other allowances and gratuity as might have been granted had he entered the service after the passing of this Act, except that the amount of the additional allowance payable on retirement shall be increased by one-half per cent, in respect of each completed year he had served at the passing of this Act.

(2) Nothing in this Act shall affect the right to superannuation allowance or gratuity of a civil servant who has entered the service before the passing of this Act, and who either is at that time over sixty years of age, or is under sixty years of age and does not adopt the provisions of this Act.