Local, Government (Superannuation) Act, 1948

Calculation of pensionable remuneration of established officer.

35.—(1) A local authority shall, from time to time and whenever so directed by the Minister, determine the annual money value of every (if any) emolument of an established officer and shall keep displayed, in every office or institution which they maintain and in a conspicuous position accessible to their officers, a list of the values so determined of the emoluments of the established officers employed in or from such office or institution.

(2) A determination under subsection (1) of this section shall be subject to the sanction of the Minister.

(3) Where an established officer is in receipt of a particular rate of salary on any day, his pensionable remuneration for the purposes of this Part of this Act on that day shall be—

(a) in case the period or the aggregate of the periods which under this Part of this Act he is entitled to reckon as service is not less than three years—

(i) if, during the whole of the period or periods comprising the last three years of the period or the aggregate of the periods which under this Part of this Act he is entitled to reckon as service, he was either in receipt of salary at the said particular rate or was in the same grade of officers—the amount of salary which he would receive in a year calculated by reference to the said particular rate, or

(ii) in any other case—one-third of the aggregate of the amounts received by him by way of salary during the said period or periods comprising the said three years, or, in a case where he was not on full salary during the whole of the said period or periods, one-third of the aggregate of the amounts which he would have so received if he had been on full salary during the whole of the said period or periods, or

(b) in case the period or the aggregate of the periods which under this Part of this Act he is entitled to reckon as service is less than three years—

(i) if, during the whole of the said period or periods, he was either in receipt of salary at the said particular rate or was in the same grade of officers—the amount of salary which he would receive in a year calculated by reference to the said particular rate, or

(ii) in any other case—the monthly average, multiplied by twelve, of the amounts received by him by way of salary during the said period or periods or, in a case where he was not on full salary during the whole of the said period or periods, the monthly average, multiplied by twelve, of the amount which he would have so received if he had been on full salary during the whole of the said period or periods,

together with the annual value as then determined under subsection (1) of this section of his emoluments, if any.