Mental Treatment Act, 1945

Pension, etc., in certain special cases.

72.—(1) A mental hospital authority shall, with the consent of the Minister, grant to any officer or servant in their service, who has been in the service of a mental hospital authority for not less than ten years and—

(a) who is removed from his office or employment for a cause other than misconduct or incapacity, or

(b) whose office or employment is abolished, or

(c) whose position has, in the opinion of the Minister, been materially altered to his detriment owing to changes in his conditions of service made without reasonable cause, and who resigns his office or employment with the consent of the Minister,

such annual allowance and lump sum as in all the circumstances of the case they consider proper.

(2) Where an officer or servant of a mental hospital authority becomes entitled to be granted an allowance and lump sum under this section, and he would, but for this sub-section, also be entitled to an allowance and lump sum granted pursuant to section 66 or section 68 of this Act, such officer or servant shall not be entitled to the latter allowance and lump sum, but, without prejudice to section 73 of this Act, the allowance and lump sum which are granted to him under this section shall not be less respectively than the allowance and lump sum which he would have been granted under the said section 66 or the said section 68 (as the case may be) but for this sub-section.