Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) Act, 1949

Declaration whether the Board intend or do not intend to grant supplementary allowance.

8.—(1) A person to whom section 14 or 15 of the Superannuation Act of 1942 applies and who at the passing of that Act had not attained the age of sixty years may apply to the Board for, and the Board shall give to him, a statement declaring whether the Board intend or do not intend, if such person retires from the service of the Board in such circumstances that he is entitled to a pension under a superannuation scheme under that Act, to grant and pay to him a supplementary allowance under subsection (2) of the said section 14 or 15 and, if they intend to grant and pay to him such supplementary allowance, declaring the amount thereof.

(2) Where the Board give under this section a statement declaring that they intend, if a person retires from the service of the Board in such circumstances that he is entitled to a pension under a superannuation scheme under the Superannuation Act of 1942 , to grant and pay to him a supplementary allowance under subsection (2) of section 14 or 15 of that Act, it shall be obligatory on the Board, if such person retires as aforesaid, to grant and pay to him a supplementary allowance under that subsection of an amount not less than that declared in the statement.