Civil Service Insurance Bill

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 3, 4 July 1893, Page 2

Civil Service Insurance Bill

♦ If the Civil Service Insurance Bill be* comes law it is to take effect on the Ist January next, and shall apply to Civil servants, comprising members of the police force, school teachers, persons permanently employed in the Government Printing Office, housekeepers, messengers, Jand gardeners in the permanent imployinent of the Government ; and all warders of prisons, luoatio asylum, or sanatorium attendants, criers of Court, bailiffs, Post Office distributors, telegraph j message boys, hghthousekeepers, boatmen, and labourers in permanent Government employ. The provisions of the Act shall not apply to railway servants. Everyone subject to the operations of the Act ehall.be required to take out a life insurance policy, and shall retire at the age of 60 years, when an annuity will be paid until death. From the salary of every such person there will be deducted a sum of money according to the rate of pay, the amount thus retained being paid into the Government Insurance Department as the premium for the policy. The annual deduction will be as follows :— From a salary under £150, £5; £150 and under £200. £7 10s; £200 and under £250. £10; £260 and under £300, £12 10s; £300 and under £350, £15; £350 and under £400, £17 10s; £400 and under £450, £20 ; £450 and under £500, £22 10s; £500 and under £350, £25; £550 and under £600, £27 10s; £600 and and under £650. £30 ; £650 end under £700, £33 10s; £700 and under £750, £35 ; £750 and under £800, £37 10s ; £800. £40. The Act shall apply, not only to those appointed after it becomes law, but to those also who became Civil servants under the Act of 1886; but there will be an exception in tha case of officers who are too old to comply strictly with its provisions.