Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) Act, 1952

Age limit for certain offices.

9.—(1) The Board may declare any specified age to be the age limit for offices in the service of the Board held by persons who were transferred under subsection (9) or subsection (11) of section 39 of the Principal Act to the service of the Board from the service of an authorised undertaker and who had, by virtue of such transfer, a right to superannuation benefits payable by the Board, or for such of those offices as belong to a specified class, description or grade or for one or more specified such offices.

(2) Every declaration under this section shall come into force six months after the day on which it is made.

(3) Where a declaration under this section is for the time being in force in relation to any particular office, the following provisions shall have effect:—

(a) if on the day when such declaration comes into force there is a holder of such office and such holder, on that day, reaches or is older than the age specified in such declaration as the age limit for such office, such holder shall cease to hold such office on the said day when such declaration comes into force;

(b) if on a day after the day when such declaration comes into force any holder of such office reaches the age specified in such declaration as the age limit for such office, such holder shall cease to hold such office on the said day after the day on which such declaration comes into force.

(4) The Board shall not declare as the age limit for any office an age which is less than the normal retiring age under the superannuation scheme applicable to persons holding similar office.