Mental Treatment Act, 1945

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Marriage gratuities.

76.—Where—

(a) a female officer or servant of a mental hospital authority leaves their service in order to be married, and

(b) she has been in the service of a mental hospital authority for not less than five years, and

(c) within three months (or such longer period not exceeding six months as the Minister, if in any particular case he so thinks fit, may approve of) after so leaving, she produces to the mental hospital authority whose service she has left a marriage certificate showing that she has been married within that period,

the mental hospital authority whose service she has left shall pay to her a gratuity consisting of one-twelfth of her yearly salary or wages in respect of each of her completed years of service, but subject to the limitation that the gratuity shall not exceed her yearly salary or wages.