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allow naval or military officers in Colonial civil employment to count for civil pension such part of their employment as does not count for retired pay or an increased rate of retired pay, since they would then be able to count that period as previous civil service for the purpose of qualifying for Governors' pension without the full ten years' pensionable administration.

V. Changes in the existing Acts of Parliament which would be necessitated by the Committee's recommendations.

72. Superannuation Act, 1859.—Section 12 to be repealed. The several pro- visions of the section would be replaced by our recommendations as to mixed service and Governors' Pensions.

Colonial Governors (Pensions) Acts, 1865 and 1872.—The whole Acts to be re- pealed and replaced by the provisions which we recommend as to Governors' Pensions. Superannuation (Unhealthy Climates) Act, 1876.—This Act may have to be amended in view of our proposals in regard to additions for service in unhealthy climates.

Pensions (Colonial Service) Act, 1887.-Section 2 would be replaced by our proposals in regard to mixed service, and the whole Act, as far as it relates to Colonial Governors, by our proposals on the subject of Governors' Pensions. The whole Act should therefore be repealed.

Superannuation Act, 1887-We have proposed to extend Section 5 to Governors. In other respects the Act will stand, and we do not suggest any altera- tion in the Rules made under Section 6.

Superannuation Act, 1892.—We propose that the Act and the Rules made thereunder should be repealed and replaced by our proposals as to mixed service.

73. In conclusion, we desire to record our appreciation of the services of the Secretary to the Committee, Mr. Bottomley, which have been of very great assistance to us in collecting the necessary materials and preparing this report.

W. C. BOTTOMLEY,

Secretary.

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Colonial Office,

29 May, 1908.

R. L. ANTROBUS, Chairman.

W. C. CARTWRIGHT.

J. P. CROWLY.

GEORGE W. JOHNSON.

F. W. NEWMARCH.

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LIST OF APPENDICES.

A. Superannuation Act, 1892. Rules.

B. Circular despatch from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, July 15, 1869.

Q. Origin of the system of adding five years to service in unhealthy climates.

D. Indian pension system other than that applicable to the Indian Civil Service.

E. Existing enactments relating to, pensions of Colonial Governors.

F. Lists of places declared unhealthy.

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Provisional classification of Governorships on the lines

recommended

by the

Committee.

APPENDIX A.

THE SUPERANNUATION ACT, 1892.

CHAPTER 40.

An Act to amend the Acts relating to Superannuation Allowances and Gratuities to Persons in the Public Service so far as respects the computation of successive Service in different Offices where not all subject to the Superannuation Acts, 1834 to 1887, and as respects the application of Section Six of the Superannuation Act, 1887, to Employments of Profit under the Government of India,

[27th June 1892.]

Be it 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 :

A.D. 1892.

1.-(1.) The Treasury may, within one month after the passing of this Act, frame rules Reckoning of regulating the superannuation allowance or gratuity which may be granted to persons who service in one have served continuously and successively in two or more public offices as defined by this or more Act, but are not entitled to reckon for such grant service in all those offices.

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* (2.) The said rules shall provide for reckoning service according to the rules under the Superannuation Acts, 1834 to 1887, and subject to such reckoning of service, for granting the same superannuation allowance or gratuity to any person as might have been granted to him if his whole service had been in the public office from which he ultimately retires.

(3.) The Treasury may determine in each case the funds or accounts out of which the superannuation allowance or gratuity is to be paid, and where it is to be paid ont of more than one fund or account, may apportion the amounts to be paid out of each fund or account: Provided that in cases affecting the revenue of India the Secretary of State in Council of India shall determine the amount to be paid therefrom.

public offices.

2. The Treasury may, within one month after the passing of this Act, frame rules Extension to for the purpose of extending to employments of profit under the Department of the Secretary Indian em. of State in Council of India, or the Government of India, such of the existing rules under ployments of

rules under section six of the Superannuation Act, 1887, as do not extend to those employments, and 50 & 51 Vict. may consolidate the existing rules with the rules so framed.

c. 67, s. 6.

3. A copy of any rules made under this Act shall forthwith be laid before Parliament, Rules to be and the rules shall not come into operation until three months after such copy is so laid, faid before nor if within those three months either House passes a resolution objecting to them, but if Parliament. such resolution is passed the Treasury may frame new rules, and this section shall apply as if the passing of the said resolution were substituted for the passing of this Act, and so on as often as occasion may require.

4. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-

The expression "public office means any office or employment (other than any Definitions. office or employment in Her Majesty's naval or land forces) service in which qualifies

for the grant of a superannuation allowance or gratuity, and the remuneration of which is paid out of. -

(a) the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom; or

(b) moneys provided by Parliament, or dealt with us appropriations in aid; or

(c) the revenue of India; or

(d) the revenue of the Isle of Man; or

(e) any fund which, from its being administered by a public department, the

Treasury may determine to be a public fund;

and includes the office of any existing prison officer within the meaning of the

Prisons Act, 1877, the General Prisons (Ireland) Act, 1877, and the Prisons (Scotland) 40 & 41 Vict. Act, 1877:

The expression "superannuation allowance " includes any pension or super- 40 & 41 Vict.

6. 21.

c. 19.

40 & 41 Vict.

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annuation or other retiring allowance.