Transport Act, 1950

Compensation to certain officers and servants of the Board whose services are dispensed with or who are transferred to other positions consequential upon cesser or reduction of services by inland waterway.

40.—Whenever the Board ceases to provide or permanently reduces any services for the carriage of merchandise by inland waterway, and as a consequence thereof the retention of any officer or servant of the Board (being an officer or servant who was employed in a permanent capacity at the date of cesser or reduction or who had served continuously with the Board or either dissolved undertaker for a period of not less than three years ending on that date) in the position which he held before such cesser or reduction becomes unnecessary, the following provisions shall have effect:—

(1) if the Board dispenses with his services, he shall be paid by the Board compensation calculated in the manner set out in the Fourth Schedule to this Act.

(2) if—

(a) the Board transfers him to another position in its service, and

(b) he thereby suffers a worsening of his conditions of service as an officer or servant of the Board,

he shall be paid by the Board compensation consisting of a lump sum of such amount as is reasonable.