No. 67 5th Session, 13th Legislature, Alberta 7 Elizabeth II, 1959 BILL 67

An Act to Authorize an Increase in the Superannuation Allowances Paid to Retired Employees of the Government under The Superannuation Act HON. MR. HOOKE Printed by L. S. WALL, Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, Edmonton, Alberta, 1959

Explanatory Note This Bill authorizes, effective December I, 1958, the payment of certain additional allowances to recipients of superannuation allowances under The Superannuation Act. (R.S.A. 1942, c. 35.)

BILL No. 67 of 1959

An Act to Authorize an Increase in the Superannuation Allowances Paid to Retired Employees of the Government under The Superannuation Act (Assented to , 1959) HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as "The SupeTannuation In­ crease Act". 2..

(1) Where a person is receiving a superannuation allowance under The Superannuation Act, being

chapter 35 of the Revised Statutes of Alberta, 1942, an additional al­ lowance at a rate not exceeding one dollar and twenty­ five cents per month for each year, or major fraction of a year, of employment, including any military service, in respect of which the superannuation allowance is paid, shall be paid to each recipient of the allowance who applies for the same.

(2) The aggregate of the superannuation allowance and the additional allowance under this Act shall not in the case of anyone recipient exceed one hundred and twenty­ five dollars a month. 3. The additional allowance shall be at the rate pre­ scribed in

section 2 irrespective of the type of superannua­ tion allowance received by the applicant for an additional allowance, and shall be paid to him while he is entitled to receive the superannuation allowance. 4. Where a superannuation allowance is paid in respect of part only of the employment of a retired employee of the Government, the recipient of the superannuation allowance is entitled to receive the additional allowance herein pro­ vided on the basis of the whole of such employment but (

a) a period of employment that was less than eight months shall not be included in the computation of the whole of such employment, (

b) service rendered after the employee attained the age of sixty-five years shall not be included in the computation of the whole of such employment, and (

c) if the employee's service exceeded thirty-five years, the additional allowance shall be paid on the basis of the whole employment being thirty-five years' employment.

2 5. Applications for the additional allowance may be made to the Public Service Pension Board in such form as that Board may from time to time prescribe. 6. The additional allowances shall be paid from the General Revenue Fund of the Province upon the certificate of the Secretary of the Public Service Pension Board. '1. This Act comes into force on the day upon which it is assented to and upon so coming into force applies from and after the first day of December, 1958.

No. 67 FIFTH SESSION THIRTEENTH LEGISLATURE 7 ELIZABETH II 1959 BILL

An Act to Authorize an Increase in the Superannuation Allowances Paid to Retired Employees of the Government under The Superan­ nuation Act. Received and read the First time ......................................... . Second time ....................................... . Third time ......................................... . HON. MR. HOOKE Title: 1959 (13th, 5th) Bill 67,

An Act to Authorize an Increase in the Superannuation Allowances Paid to Retired Employees of the Government under The Superannuation Act