TEACHERS’ SUPERANNUATION.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1742, 7 May 1906, Page 3

TEACHERS’ SUPERANNUATION.

Wellington, Saturday, Regulations under the Teachers’ Superannuation Act are gazetted. AU meetings of the Board are to be held in Wellington on the third Tuesday in January, April, July, and October. The chief clerk of the Education Department will be the clerk of the board. Members of the Board will not receive any remuneration for their services, but will be entitled to the usual travelling allowance. The corn* tributions of every member who elects to join the fund will begin on the first day of the month in which he elects to join. In the case of a member who joins under the provisions of section 5 of the Act (which provides that teachers appointed after the passing of the Act must join tho fuud),'his contributions will begin from the date that his salary begins. Every contributor whoso pay is temporarily stopped owing to ill-health may (a) contribute to the fund monthly, so long as his pay is stopped, at one-third of the rate otherwise payable, and thereafter at the ordinary rate ; or (b) cease to coni tribute to the fund while his pay is stopped, and thereafter contribute by way of deduction from pay an addiional amount equal to one third of his

ordinary contribution for a period equal to that during which his pay was stopped. r Jlio Secretary for Education has to furnish the Board with a report upon the caso of every contributor who signitios his intention of retiring and claiming on the fund,

and he must also advise the Board with respect to contributors who retire “medically unfit,” or before pension age, or who are dismissed. Further, it is his duty to report to the Board as to claims arising upon the death of a contributor. It is also tho duty of the Education Board, whon a contributor becomes a claimant, to furnish the particulars as to salary, and so on, required by the Board.