Asylums and Certified Institutions (Officers Pensions) Act, 1918

Application of 9 Edw. 7. c. 48 to officers and servants of certified institutions for defectives.

3 & 4 Geo. 5. c. 28.

3 & 4 Geo. 5. c. 38.

1.(1) Subject to such adaptations and modifications as the Secretary of State may by order prescribe and subject as hereinafter provided, the Asylyms Officers Superannuation Act, 1909, shall apply and shall be deemed always to have applied to officers and servants employed in certified institutions for defectives as if references in that Act to asylums included references to such institutions, and as if in relation to officers and servants of such an institution references to the visiting committee of an asylum included references to the manager of the institution:

Provided that—

(a) An officer or servant employed in a certified institution shall be treated as an officer or servant of the second class:

(b) The power under subsection (3) of section two of the said Act to add years to the actual years of service shall not apply in respct of service in certified institutions:

(c) The rate of contribution for an officer or servant employed in a certified institution shall be two and a half per cent. of the salary or wages and emoluments for each year, except that in the case of an officer or servant who has removed from an asylum to a certified institution and who at the time of his so removing was liable to contribute at the rate of two per cent., the rate shallbe two per cent. only:

(d) The superannuation allowance of an asylums officer or servant of the first class who has removed to a certified institution shall, in respect of his asylums service, be calculated by reference to fiftieths instead of sixtieths, and an officer who has so removed before the date of the commencement of this Act or who so removes within five years after that date shall, if he has been in the service of an asylum as a first class officer or servant for not less than ten years, become qualified for receiving a superannuation allowance at the age of fifty-five years instead of at the age of sixty years.

(2) In this section the expression “certified institutions for defectives” means certified institutions provided by local authoritities under the Mental Deficiency Act, 1913, or by district boards under the Mental Deficiency and Lunacy (Scotland) Act, 1913.

(3) In the application of this section to Scotland, the Secretary for Scotland shall be substituted for the Secretary of State.