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(c) Mental Health Officers (former established employees of the first class) (i) Under the

Asylums Officers' Superannuation Act, 1909, these officers (having care or charge of
patients in the usual course of their duties) qualified for pension, based on ' fiftieths ', on a

scale which secured the maximum (two-thirds) pension after 34 years of established
service of the first class. Retirement was The Development of Public Superannuation

Schemes 21 optional at age 55, as against the normal 60. Otherwise the scheme was as
described in Appendix I, item (d). (ii) Under the National Health Service

(Superannuation) Regulations, 1947-48, which superseded the above, the general

conditions are preserved, but the substituted scale is based, at the rate of one per year of
appropriate service up to 20 years and at two per year thereafter, on ' eightieths ' for

pension and on ' three-eightieths ' for lump sum, reaching the maximum (½) pension, etc.,

after 30 years' service as a mental health officer. (d) Prison Officers Under the
Superannuation (Prison Officers) Act, 1919, and the Superannuation Act, 1935, the

standard type of civil service benefits apply, but service after 20 years attracts benefit at
twice the normal rate, until the maximum is reached after 30 years as a prison officer.

Retirement is optional at age 55.

The development of Public Superannuation Schemes

Mr A. C. Robb, in introducing the paper, said that, since it had gone to print, the

Superannuation Bill, 1949, had become law, and sundry Statutory Instruments had been
issued on the lines of the draft regulations referred to in the paper. The Superannuation

(Prison Officers) Act, 1919, which was referred to in Appendix II, item (d), had been
repealed, but similar rights were conferred by the Superannuation Act, 1949, with the

modification that extended service could earn an increased benefit, subject to a new

maximum.
Illustrating the desirability of standardization from a practical viewpoint he said that

local-Act schemes for the local government service were originally designed purely to
suit the authority concerned. The Local Government Act, 1929, required amending

schemes in connexion with the assimilation of transferred staff. The Local Government
Superannuation Act, 1937, required amending schemes governing mainly the

pensionability of earlier service. Regulations under the National Insurance Act, 1946,