§ Mr. Garro Jonesasked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that municipal workers are frequently employed at reduced pay during the last five years of their employment, and that their superannuation is computed upon this reduced pay rather than on the higher rate of earnings in the years of their full vigour; that this method of computation operates unjustly upon municipal workers; and whether he contemplates any steps to amend the law to remedy this?
§ Sir K. WoodYes, Sir. I am aware of such cases. The Local Government Superannuation Act, 1937, which comes into operation on the 1st April, 1939, provides that if an employé suffers a reduction of remuneration owing to his inability to discharge his duties efficiently he is entitled to continue to contribute to1298W the superannuation fund as if such reduction had not been effected and to receive a superannuation allowance calculated on the unreduced remuneration.