32 23 Nursing Sisters Retiring Allowance

• Author: Ralph Hone
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CHAPTER 323.

NURSING SISTERS RETIRING ALLOWANCE.

AN ACT FOR GRANTING AND REGULATING RETIRING ALLOWANCES IN RESPECT OF SERVICE IN THE COLONY TO NURSING SISTERS AND MATRONS APPOINTED THROUGH THE OVERSEAS NURSING ASSOCIATION.

[17th May 1929.] [Commencement 25th September 1929.] 1. This Act may be cited as The Nursing Sisters Retiring Allowance Act.

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires'public service' means service under any Government or local authority;

   'public hospital' includes any hospital controlled by a regularly constituted governing body and not run for private profit.

3. A nursing sister or matron who has served not less than three years in the service of this Colony and not less than fifteen years in the public service or in a public hospital to which she received an appointment through the Overseas Nursing Association and who would not otherwise be entitled to a pension under any law of this Colony relating to pensions may be granted on her ultimate retirement a retiring allowance calculated at the rate of one pound per annum for each month of her service under the Government of this Colony.

4. -(1) Except in the case of retirement on account of illness no retiring allowance shall be payable until the nursing sister or matron attains the age of fifty years.

   (2) The grant of a retiring allowance shall be dependent on the production to the satisfaction of the Secretary of State of certificates showing that the nursing sister or matron has discharged her duties with diligence and fidelity to the satisfaction of the head 18 of 1929.

   48 of 1956.

   Short title.

   Interpretation.

   Retiring allowances for nursing sisters and matrons.

   48 of 1956, s. 2.

   Conditions of grant of retiring allowance.

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   ICH.323.

   Allowance on retirement caused by illhealth.

   Application of Act.

   Expenses.

   officer of her department; such certificate to be given to her, in as far as this Colony is concerned, on -her leaving the service of this...