Local Government (Superannuation) Act, 1956

Exclusions from salary and emoluments.

26.—(1) In this Part of this Act neither “salary” nor “emoluments” shall include any of the following:

(a) payments for overtime,

(b) travelling expenses,

(c) payments for acting as clerk to a local pensions committee under section 8 of the Old Age Pensions Act, 1908, or to a sub-committee appointed by any such committee,

(d) payments for acting as superintendent registrar of births, deaths and marriages or as registrar of marriages,

(e) payments for special work of a casual or temporary nature,

(f) payments for filling a position temporarily unless the period for which the payments are made is two years or more reckoned back from cesser of office.

(g) allowances to cover particular expenses or needs.

(2) The Minister may, if he thinks fit, direct that payments of a specified kind, being a kind mentioned in paragraph (a) or paragraph (g) of subsection (1) of this section, shall be for the purposes of this Part of this Act part of the salary of a particular officer, of officers of a particular class or of every officer, and thereupon, notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, “salary” shall in this Part of this Act, include, as respects that officer, officers of that class or every officer (as may be appropriate) payments of that kind.