Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Police Regulation Act 1958 - SECT 40

Application to members of the force

40. Application to members of the force



(1) This Division shall apply to members of the force appointed on or after
the twenty-fifth day of November One thousand nine hundred and two who were
serving as such on the first day of January One thousand nine hundred and
twenty-four and to members of the force appointed after the said date and save
as hereinafter provided shall not apply to members of the force appointed
before the twenty-fifth day of November One thousand nine hundred and two.



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(3) The provisions of this Division, unless otherwise expressly stated, shall
apply to the Chief Commissioner in like manner, so nearly as circumstances
admit, as they apply to any other member of the force, except that the
certificate of approved service may be given by the Chief Secretary and that
the Chief Commissioner shall be entitled after not less than ten years'
approved service to receive an ordinary pension for life calculated in
accordance with scale number two in the table in the Fourth Schedule to this
Act and subject to the provisions and the general rules in the said Schedule.



(4) Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing provisions of this section the
provisions of this Part shall not apply-

   (a)  to any person appointed to be a member of the police force other than
        a police cadet on or after the appointed day within the meaning of
        Part I of the Superannuation Act 1963; or

   (b)  to any member of the force who becomes an officer within the meaning
        of the Superannuation Act 1958 pursuant to Part I of the
        Superannuation Act 1963-

but this Part shall continue on and after the said day to apply to-

        (i)    police cadets; and

        (ii)   members of the force who do not become officers within the
               meaning of the Superannuation Act 1958;

Provided that when any police cadet is appointed to the rank of constable or
any higher rank he shall cease to be subject to this Part and shall be
entitled to a refund of the whole of the rateable deductions previously made
from his pay.

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