SCHEDULE (B.) SCALE of ordinary Superannuation Allowances applicable to the Offices and Departments mentioned in Schedule (A.) Forty-sixtieths of the Salary is the highest Amount of ordinary Superannuation, except in the Case of Persons who entered the Service before the Fifth August One thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, to whom alone the following Part of this Schedule is applicable: For Service for the full Period of Fifty Years and upwards the Superannuation Allowance in the Case of Persons who have entered the Service before the Fifth August One thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine to be equal to the full Amount of the Salary. [Note.-Clauses A. to D. were added by the Select Committee.] W HEREAS an Act was passed in the Session holden in Preamble. the Fourth and Fifth Years of the Reign of King William c. 24. the Fourth, Chapter Twenty-four, "to alter, amend, and 4 & 5 W. 4. "consolidate the Laws for regulating the Pensions, Compensations, 5" and Allowances to be made to Persons in respect of their having "held Civil Offices in His Majesty's Service:" And whereas it is. desirable to do away with the System by which a Portion of the Salaries of Civil Servants is deducted on account of Superannuation : Allowances, and otherwise to amend the said Act as herein-after: 10 mentioned: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent! Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: 14., and 27. I. Sections Ten, Fourteen, and Twenty-seven of the said Act 4 & 5 W. 4. 15 of the Fourth and Fifth Years of King William the Fourth shall c. 24. ss. 10., be repealed, but such Repeal shall not affect any Compensation repealed. or Allowance granted or Act done before the passing of this Act. CLAUSE A. Salaries to be revised, with due Abolition of II. The Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury shall, with all convenient Speed after the passing of this Act, cause the Salaries or Rates of Payment in the several Branches of the Civil Service of the Regard to the State not excepted from the Provisions of this Act as to SuperannuaDeductions. tion Allowances to be revised, with a due Regard to the Amount of 5 the Deductions which will be remitted by reason of the Repeal of Section Twenty-seventh of the said Act of the Fourth and Fifth Years of King William the Fourth, and such Modification of Salaries as, by Order of the said Commissioners of the Treasury, may be made on such Revision, shall take effect on the First Day of April One thousand 10 eight hundred and fifty-seven; and a Report of such Revision, and of all Minutes of the Commissioners of the Treasury thereon, shall be laid before Parliament in the Month of March One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, or if Parliament be not then sitting, within Fourteen Days after the next Meeting of Parliament. CLAUSE B. Revision of Salaries in the Case of Offices not under the Provisions 15 III. The Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury shall also, with all convenient Speed after the passing of this Act, cause to be revised the Salaries or Rates of Payment payable in respect of Offices not now under the Provisions of the said Act of the Fourth and Fifth Years of King William the Fourth, as to Superannuation Allowances, 20 of 4 & 5 W. 4. but to which the Provisions of this Act as to such Allowances c. 24., but to which the may be extended, due Regard being had in such Revision to the Superannu- Advantages accruing to the Holders of such Offices from the Proances under visions of this Act; and such Modification of Salaries shall take effect this Act will on the First Day of April One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven; 25 and a Report of such Revision, and of the Minutes of the Commissioners of the Treasury thereon, shall be laid before Parliament at the Time mentioned in the last preceding Clause. ation Allow be extended. Ordinary Scale of Superannuation IV. After the Commencement of this Act the Superannuation Allowance to be granted to Persons who shall have served in the 30 Civil Service of the State, and who shall have entered into such Service Allowances subsequently to the Fourth of August One thousand eight hundred and for permanent Offices. twenty-nine, shall not exceed the following Proportions, with reference to the Amount of their Salaries and the Periods of their Services respectively; (that is to say,) 35 To any Person who shall have served Ten Years and upwards to |