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inserting after the word "president" the words "or the secretary".

Question as to invalidity, &c., determined by Board on Medical Officers' report.
10.  Section seventy-seven of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the second proviso.

Provisions with respect to contributors whose salaries exceed £884 per annum.
11.—(1.) Section thirty of the Superannuation Act 1947 is amended—
        (a) by omitting from sub-section (1.) the words "Where, immediately prior to the date of commencement of this Act, a contributor whose salary exceeded Eight hundred and eighty-four pounds per annum was contributing for the maximum number of units of pension for which he was eligible or required to contribute, he" and inserting in their stead the words "A contributor who, immediately prior to the date of commencement of this Act, was in receipt of a salary exceeding Eight hundred and eighty-four pounds per annum";
        (b) by inserting after sub-section (1.) the following sub-section:—
        "(1a.) Where a contributor who makes an election under the last preceding sub-section was, at the date of commencement of this Act, contributing for less than

        the maximum number of units of pension for which he was eligible or required to contribute, the election, in so far as it relates to units of pension below the maximum number of units, shall not have effect unless within six months after the date of the election the contributor satisfies the Superannuation Board that he is not suffering from any physical or mental defect likely to render him incapable of performing his duties before attaining the maximum age for retirement."; and
        (c) by omitting from sub-section (2.) the words "the last preceding sub-section" and inserting in their stead the words "this section".
(2.) This section shall be deemed to have come into operation on the date of commencement of the Superannuation Act 1947.

Increase of certain pensions.
12.—(1.) After section thirty-one of the Superannuation Act 1947 the following section is inserted:—
"31a.—(1.) Where, at the date of commencement of this section, an employee who had a right referred to in section fifty-one of the Principal Act had transferred that right to the Board for new rights of pension in accordance with the provisions of section fifty-seven or fifty-eight of the Principal Act, the rate of the pension which would, but for this section, be payable to him upon retirement, under the provisions of either of those sections, being pension at a rate less than Three hundred and sixty pounds per annum, shall be increased—
        (a) if the rate of the pension does not exceed Two hundred and eighty-eight pounds per annum—by one-quarter; or
        (b) if the rate of the pension exceeds Two hundred and eighty-eight pounds per annum but is less than