Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Police Regulation Act 1958 - SECT 23

Superannuation on account of ill health

23. Superannuation on account of ill health



(1) When any member of the force has served for ten years and has not attained
the full age of fifty-five years, if a certificate to the effect set forth in
the Third Schedule signed by the members of the Medical Board is forwarded to
the Governor in Council by the said Board, the Governor in Council may
superannuate such member, and he shall thereupon be entitled to receive at his
option the gratuity or the pension provided by the last preceding section for
members of the force who have attained the full age of fifty-five years.

(2) Should any member of the force to whom a pension has on or after the
twenty-first day of September One thousand nine hundred and fourteen been
granted die before the sum to which he would have been entitled on his
retirement as a gratuity has been received by him by way of pension then the
difference between such sum and the amount actually received by him shall be
paid to his widow and children.