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The council may at any time release from the performance of A.D. 1888. any duties any such existing officer whose services they may deem unnecessary, but any person so released shall be entitled to compensation under this Act.

89. Every existing officer declared by this Act to be entitled to Componen compensation, and every other existing officer who suffers any pecu- tion to exist- niary loss by abolition of his office or by diminution or loss of fees or

ing ofloors. otherwise, shall be entitled to have adoquate compensation paid to him by the county council for suoh pecuniary loss, regard being had 10 to the conditions on which his appointment was made, th enature of his office or employment, the duration of his service, and all other circumstances of the case, and the compensation, where his interest was a freehold, shall be equal to the amount of the pecuniary loss, but save as aforesaid, shall not exceed the amount which, under 15 the rules relating to Her Majesty's Civil Service, is paid to a person

on abolition of office.

[qu. Every officer whose average remuneration is required to be ascertained, and] every person who is entitled to compensation, as above-mentioned, shall deliver to the county council a claim under 20 his hand setting forth the whole amount received and expended by him or his predecessors in office, in every year during the period of five years next before the passing of this Act, on account of the omoluments [which he claims to have included in his averago re- muneration, or] for which he claims compensation, as the case may 25 be, distinguishing the offices in respect of which the same have been received, and accompanied by a statutory declaration under the Statutory Declaration Act, 1885, that the same is a true 5 & 6 W. 4. statement according to the best of his knowledge, information, and c. 69. belief.

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Such statement shall be submitted to the county council, who shall forthwith take the same into consideration and, [as the case may be, ascertain the amount of the average remuneration or] asseFS the just amount of compensation (if any), and shall forthwith inform the claimant of their decision.

If a claimant is aggrieved [by the amount of the average remuneration ascertained, or] by the refusal of the local authority to grant any compensation, or by theamount of compensation assessed, or if not less than one third of the members of the county counoil subscribe a protest against the amount of the [average remuneration 40 or] compensation as being excessive, the claimant or any subscriber to such protest (as the case may be) may, within three months after the decision of the county council, appeal to the Commis.

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