Mental Treatment Act, 1945

Superannuation of registered officers and servants.

66.—(1) This section applies to every officer or servant of a mental hospital authority—

(a) whose name is registered in the register maintained under this Part of this Act by the authority, and

(b) who has been in the service of a mental hospital authority for not less than twenty years, and

(c) who is not less than fifty-five years of age.

(2) Subject to the provisions of this Part of this Act, an officer or servant of a mental hospital authority, who, while this section applies to him, resigns or otherwise ceases to hold office or employment shall be entitled to receive from the authority—

(a) an allowance during life the annual amount of which shall consist of—

(i) twenty-eightieths of his yearly salary or wages, and

(ii) where he has been in the service of a mental hospital authority for twenty-one or more completed years, two-eightieths of his yearly salary or wages in respect of each of the twenty-first and the subsequent (if any) of such completed years, and

(b) a lump sum consisting of—

(i) twenty-thirtieths of his yearly salary or wages, and

(ii) where he has been in the service of a mental hospital authority for twenty-one or more completed years, two-thirtieths of his yearly salary or wages in respect of each of the twenty-first and the subsequent (if any) of such completed years.