Mental Treatment Act, 1945

Superannuation of officers and servants who are not registered.

68.—(1) This section applies to every officer or servant of a mental hospital authority—

(a) whose name is not 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 twenty years, and

(c) who is not less than sixty 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 shall be entitled to receive from the authority—

(a) an allowance during life 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

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