Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) Act, 1970

Supplementary allowances for certain manual workers.

4.—The Board may, if they so think fit, grant and pay to a person—

(a) to whom subsection (8) (inserted by this Act) of section 7 of the Act of 1942 applies,

(b) who pays to the Board a contribution equal to 1% of the remuneration paid to him by the Board during the three years immediately before his retirement from the employment of the Board, and

(c) who is in receipt of a pension under the manual workers superannuation scheme (within the meaning of the Act of 1942),

a supplementary allowance for his life the annual amount of which together with the annual amount of the pension aforesaid is equal to—

(i) one half of the annual rate of the remuneration paid to the person by the Board immediately before his retirement from the employment of the Board, or

(ii) the annual amount of the pension which would have been payable to the person aforesaid if the whole of his continuous service in the employment of the Board had been reckoned therefor,

whichever is the less.