upon any such payment as aforesaid being made
the organiser shall be treated as having served
in recognised service during the period in
respect of which the payment is made; and the
allowances or gratuities payable to, or in respect
of, him shall be increased accordingly; or
(b) His employer may pay to or in respect of the
organiser the amounts by which the allowances
or gratuities payable to, or in respect of, him
would have been increased if he had been
entitled to be so treated;

all sums payable to the Board under this subsection shall
be recoverable by the Board, and all sums received by
the Board under this subsection shall be paid into the
Exchequer.

(4) For the purposes of this section

(a) in the case of an organiser over the age of
sixty-five years, who at the date of the com-
mencement of this Act is in employment
which would be contributory service if he
were under that age, the Board may treat
him as if he were employed at that date in
contributory service; and

(b) employment as an organiser by any predecessor
to a local education authority shall be treated

as employment by a local education authority.

15. (1) There shall be kept in accordance with the Accounts directions contained in the Second Schedule to this Act and an account in such form and prepared in such manner as actuarial may be provided for by regulations made by the Treasury, inquiries. of all revenue and expenditure (including any sums which are under the said schedule to be deemed to be revenue or expenditure) under the School Teachers (Superannuation) Acts, 1918 to 1924 and under this Act, as from the first day of June, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, and at the expiration of the period of seven years from the commencement of this Act, and at the expiration of every subsequent period of seven years, the Treasury shall cause an actuarial inquiry to be made for the purpose of determining whether on the basis of the said account the contributions payable under this Part of this Act are sufficient, or more than sufficient or less than sufficient, to support the benefits payable thereunder in respect of those contributions.

Application of certain provisions of 8 & 9

Geo. 5. c. 55.

Power to

(2) The Treasury shall cause a report of every inquiry made under this section to be laid before both Houses of Parliament.

16. The provisions of the School Teachers (Superannuation) Act, 1918, which are set out with modifications in the First Schedule to this Act shall have effect for the purpose of the provisions of this Part of this Act as if they were re-enacted therein as so set out.

17.-(1) The Board may, with the consent of the make rules. Treasury and after consultation with representatives of local education authorities and of teachers affected, make rules for carrying this Act into effect, and those rules may in particular provide

(a) for the deduction from the salary of a teacher of the amount of the contributions payable by him, and for the collection of contributions by deductions to be made from any grant payable out of moneys provided by Parliament, and otherwise for the manner in which contributions are to be collected;

(b) for prescribing within what periods contributions are to be paid, and upon what conditions con. tributions not paid within the prescribed periods may be accepted;

(c) for prescribing to what accounting period con tributions paid under this Part of this Act are to be attributable;

(d) for authorising the provisional collection of contributions from or in respect of teachers whose liability to contribute is for the time being in doubt;

(e) for prescribing the manner in which any contributions found to have been paid in error shall be repaid;

(f) for the manner in which the salaries and emolu. ments of teachers, the service of teachers, and contributions paid by or in respect of teachers are to be recorded by their employers;

(g) for prescribing what part of any sums paid to teachers in respect of their employment in contributory service is to be treated as emoluments;

(h) for determining what amounts teachers are to
be treated as receiving by way of salary for any
of the purposes of this Part of this Act during
periods of absence on leave or on holiday, and
how far any such periods are to be treated as
service for the purposes of this Part of this Act;
(i) for allowing war service to be treated as recog-
nised or qualifying service and for prescribing
the circumstances in which, the extent to
which, and the conditions under which it is
to be so treated;

(j) for the manner in which and the time within
which an application for a superannuation
allowance or a gratuity is to be made;

(k) for prescribing anything which is under this Act
to be prescribed.

(2) All rules made under this section shall be laid as soon as may be before both Houses of Parliament.

18. In this Part of this Act, unless the context Interpreotherwise requires, the following expressions have the tation. meanings hereby assigned to them respectively, that is to say :

"Certificated teacher," "uncertificated teacher,"
and "teacher of a special subject" mean respec-
tively a teacher who is recognised under the
regulations of the Board for the time being in
force for public elementary schools as a certi-
ficated teacher, a teacher who is so recognised
as an uncertificated teacher, and a teacher
who is so recognised as a teacher of a special
subject:
"Grant-aided school" means a place of education
(other than a university or a university college)
in receipt of a grant, or in respect of which a
grant is made, out of moneys provided by
Parliament from or by the Board, or from or
by any public department whose place has
been taken by the Board:

"His Majesty's dominions" includes any territory
which is under His Majesty's protection or in
respect of which a mandate is being exercised
by the government of any part of His Majesty's
dominions:

Construction of references in other

"Prescribed " means prescribed by rules made under

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this Act:

Qualifying service "

means any employment, whether in the capacity of a teacher or otherwise, which the Treasury on the recommendation of the Board may declare to be qualifying service for the purpose of calculating the period qualifying for a superannuation allowance: "Service" means salaried employment under a contract of service with an employer of a person who at the date of the employment is over eighteen and under sixty-five years of age: "United Kingdom " means Great Britain and

Northern Ireland:

"War service" means service in any of the naval
or military forces of the Crown in the late war,
or any service in connection with naval or
military operations in that
that war which the
Board consider may properly be treated in the
same manner as actual naval or military
service, and includes any period during which a
person though not actually serving in such
service as aforesaid was, as the result of his
service, prevented or hindered from procuring
work as a teacher owing to injury, illness, or
any other cause.

19. References in any Act passed before the commencement of this Act, except the School Teachers (Superannuation) Acts, 1918 to 1924, to "recognised service within the meaning of the last-mentioned Acts recognised shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be construed as references to "contributory service within the meaning of this Act.

Acts to

service.

Amend

ments as to recognised

service.

PART III.

AMENDMENTS IN RESPECT OF PAST SERVICE.

20.-(1) In the case of a teacher who served in recognised service within the meaning of the School Teachers (Superannuation) Act, 1918, in a school certified under the Elementary Education (Blind and Deaf

C. 42.

Children) Act, 1893, any service by him in the capacity of a teacher in a school or class for blind or deaf children before the commencement of the last-mentioned 56 & 57 Vict. Act, or within such period after the commencement of that Act as may be allowed by the Board, shall be deemed always to have been such recognised service.

(2) The following paragraph shall be substituted for paragraph (vi) of the definition of recognised service in section eighteen of the School Teachers (Superannuation) Act, 1918:

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(vi) in the capacity of a teacher during any
period before the school became grant-aided
in any school (not being an elementary school
or a school certified under Part IV. of the
Children Act, 1908), which, though not
grant-aided at the date of the service, was
grant-aided at any time after the date of
the service before the first day of April,
nineteen hundred and twenty-four, or was in
the opinion of the Board educationally con-
tinuous with a school which was grant-aided
at any time before that date."

(3) Any addition to an annual allowance granted before the date of the commencement of this Act which may be made by virtue of any of the foregoing provisions of this section shall begin to accrue only from that date.

(4) Section eighteen of the School Teachers (Superannuation) Act, 1918, shall have effect, and shall be deemed always to have had effect, as though the following paragraph were substituted for paragraph (viii) thereof:

"(viii) Subject to the prescribed conditions, in
the capacity of a teacher during any period
before the commencement of this Act in any
school (not being a school conducted for
private profit) other than such a school as is
mentioned in paragraph (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
or (vi) of this definition, so, however, that
not more than ten years' service in any such
school shall be recognised for the purposes of
this Act."