Electricity Supply Board (Superannuation) Act, 1942

Special provisions in relation to the manual workers superannuation scheme.

12.—(1) No person shall be entitled to pay any contribution or receive any benefit under the manual workers superannuation scheme unless or until he has signed and deposited with the Board a consent to pay contributions under that scheme.

(2) Whenever a person in the employment of the Board has signed and deposited with the Board such consent as is mentioned in the foregoing sub-section of this section, the Board shall, as soon as may be, give to such person a summary in writing of the provisions of this Act in relation to the following matters, that is to say:—

(a) continuity of service with the Board so far as concerns manual workers, and

(b) the effect of a break in the service of a manual worker and, in particular, the effect of a break due to wilful action which causes or might have caused an interruption in the generation, transmission, or distribution of electricity by the Board or which impedes or might have impeded the due performance of any of the functions or duties of the Board, and

(c) the Tribunal and the functions thereof.