Mental Treatment Act, 1945

Pensions, etc., to registered officers and servants on being incapacitated.

67.—(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 ten years, and

(c) who either—

(i) has been in the service of a mental hospital authority for less than twenty years, or

(ii) is 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 on account of having sustained or contracted, otherwise than through his own misconduct, any physical or mental injury or illness which is certified by the appropriate medical officer to have caused permanent incapacity for taking-care of patients shall be entitled to receive from the authority—

(a) where he has been in the service of a mental hospital authority for less than twenty years—

(i) an allowance during life or incapacity the annual amount of which shall consist of one-eightieth of his yearly salary or wages in respect of each of his completed years of service, and

(ii) a lump sum consisting of one-thirtieth of his yearly salary or wages in respect of each of his completed years of service; and

(b) where he has been in the service of a mental hospital authority for twenty years or longer—

(i) an allowance during life or incapacity 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

(ii) 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.