Act No. 18 of 1929
NURSING SISTERS RETIRING ALLOWANCE |
An Act
for granting and regulating retiring allowances in respect of service in The
Bahamas to nursing sisters and matrons appointed through the Overseas Nursing
Association. | 18 of 1929
48 of 1956 |
[Assent 17th May, 1929]
[Commencement 25th September, 1929] |
1. This Act
may be cited as the Nursing Sisters Retiring Allowance Act. | Short title. |
2. In this
Act, unless the context otherwise requires- | Interpretation. |
"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 The Bahamas 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 The Bahamas 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
The Bahamas. | Retiring allowances for
nursing sisters and matrons. |
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. | Conditions of grant of
retiring allowance. |
(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 officer of her department; such certificate to be
given to her, in as far as The Bahamas is concerned, on her leaving the service
of The Bahamas. |
(3) The total
retiring allowance drawn by the nursing sister or matron shall not exceed the
amount of pension which she would have drawn if her whole service had been on
the pensionable establishment of The Bahamas. |
(4) For the
purposes of this Act the total service need not be continuous. |
5. Whenever
a nursing sister or matron is required on the ground of ill-health to
relinquish her employment before attaining the age of fifty years a retiring
allowance may be granted to her provided that her aggregate service is not less
than ten years. | Allowance on retirement
caused by ill-health. |
6. This Act
shall apply to all nursing sisters and matrons in the public service on the
first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, and to all
others who join such service after that day: | Application of Act. |
Provided, however,
that the certificate required in subsection (2) of section 4 of this Act shall
not be required in respect of service prior to the first day of January, one
thousand nine hundred and twenty-six. |
7. All
expenses incurred in carrying out the objects and provisions of this Act shall
be payable out of the Treasury by warrant in the usual manner. | Expenses. |