CHAP. 22. An Act respecting pensions to Officers of the Northwest Mounted Police. [Assented to 15th May, 1902.] HT IS Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the follows: 1. This Act may be cited as The Mounted Police Officers Short title. Pension Act, 1902. Interpretation. 2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,(a.) The expression expression "force" means the North-west "Force." Mounted Police force; (b.) The expression "officer" means a commissioned officer "Officer.” of the force; (c.) The expression "service" means service on the force. "Service." pension to 3. An officer who is retired compulsorily, for any cause Rates of other than misconduct or inefficiency, after twenty years officers. service shall be entitled to a pension for life, not exceeding one-fiftieth of the pay and allowances of his rank or permanent appointment at the time of his retirement for each completed year of service. voluntary 2. An officer who retires voluntarily after twenty-five years' In case of service shall be entitled to a pension for life, twenty per cent retirement less than he would be entitled to if he were retired compul- after 25 years' sorily. service. years. 3. An officer who retires voluntarily after thirty-five years' After 35 service shall be entitled to the same pension as if he were retired compulsorily. 4. No addition shall be made to such pension for any service Maximum beyond thirty-five years. rate. service not to 5. If the service has not been continuous, the period or Breaks in periods during which such service has been discontinued shall be counted. not be counted. Officer's service as civil servant may be reckoned. 6. In the case of an officer who, before becoming one, has militiaman or served as a non-commissioned officer or constable, the time during which he has so served may be included in his term of service for the purpose of this Act, subject to the provisions of subsection 2 of section 4; and time served in the Civil Service of Canada which could be reckoned for the purposes of The Civil Service Superannuation Act may in like manner be included in his term of service for the purposes of this Act. Deductions from pay In case deductions made for sufficient number of years. 4. A deduction towards making good the pensions hereinbefore mentioned shall be made from the pay of every officer at the rate of five per cent per annum on such pay; but such deduction shall not be made during more than thirty-five years of service. 2. If an officer becomes entitled to a pension, and the have not been deduction from his pay provided for in this section has not been made for as great a number of years as that upon which his pension is based, the aggregate amount of pay received by him during the years for which no such deduction has been made shall be divided by the number of such years for the purpose of ascertaining the average pay of such officer during such years, and a yearly, deduction amounting to five per cent upon such average pay shall be made from the pension of such officer, and such deduction shall continue to be made until the expiration of the number of years last mentioned or the cessation of the payment of the pension, whichever shall first happen: Provided that, if the officer thinks fit, the deficiency in the deduction may be made good by him in one payment. 3. The sums deducted under this section shall form part of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of Canada. Consolidated Gratuity not earned. 5. If any officer is constrained, from any infirmity of body when pension or mind, to quit the force before a period at which a pension might be granted to him, the Governor in Council may allow him a gratuity not exceeding one month's pay for each year of his service; and if any such officer is so constrained to quit case of severe the service before such period by reason of severe bodily injury, received without his own fault, in the discharge of his public duty, the Governor in Council may allow him a gratuity not exceeding three months' pay for every two years' service. Gratuity in injury on duty. Gratuity in case of reduction of staff, etc. Right of 6. If an officer is retired to promote efficiency or economy in the service, the Governor in Council may grant him such gratuity as he would have been entitled to if he had been retired in consequence of permanent infirmity of body or mind. 7. Nothing herein contained shall be understood as affecting dismissal the right of the Governor in Council to dismiss or remove any officer. not affected. Provisions for 8. Subject to the provisions hereinafter contained, the officers' wives Governor in Council may, as to him seems fit, grant a pension and children. to the widow, and a compassionate allowance to each of the children of any officer who, having completed twenty years' service, was at the time of his death either on full pay or in receipt of a pension. 9. Such pension or compassionate allowance shall not be When pension granted in the following cases:- (a.) if the applicant is unworthy of it; (d.) if the officer was at the time of his marriage over sixty years of age; (e.) in the case of an officer who married after the first day of July, nineteen hundred and two, if he was more than twentyfive years older than his wife; (f) if the officer died within one year after his marriage, unless he was manifestly in good health at the time of his marriage, and his death was caused by disease or injury not due to causes within his own control, and there are no other objections to the granting of the pension or compassionate allowance. or allowance shall not be granted. widows. 10. The pension to a widow shall be as follows:-the widow Rates of of the commissioner, five hundred dollars; of the assistant pension to commissioner, four hundred and fifty dollars; of a superintendent or surgeon, three hundred and fifty dollars; of an inspector, assistant surgeon or veterinary surgeon, two hundred and fifty dollars. children. 11. The compassionate allowance to a child shall be as Rates of follows:-The child of the commissioner or assistant com- allowance to missioner, eighty dollars; of a superintendent or surgeon, seventy dollars; of an inspector, assistant surgeon or veterinary surgeon, sixty-five dollars. 2. If the child is motherless and in great need, the allowance If children are may be double that fixed by this section. in great need. family 12. The total amount paid to the widow and children of Amount to an officer during any year shall not exceed the amount of the limited. pension which the officer was in receipt of or to which he would have been entitled, as the case may be. 13. A widow's pension or a child's compassionate allowance Discontinushall be discontinued if she or it becomes unworthy of it, or ance of becomes wealthy. pension. 2. If the widow remarries, her pension shall be suspended If widow from the day following that of her remarriage; but in the remarries. event of her again becoming a widow, her pension may be restored, if she is otherwise qualified. 3. If, through her own neglect or omission, the claim of a If widow fails widow to pension is not established before her death, the to establish 139 amount claim. No allowance to son over 18, or daughter over 21 or married. Time of payment. Treasury Board to report. Application of Act. Deductions from pay amount of pension which she might have received, if living, shall not be allowed her representatives. 14. The compassionate allowance to officers' children shall cease when the son reaches the age of eighteen, and when the daughter reaches the age of twenty-one or marries. 15. Pensions and compassionate allowances to officers' wives and children shall be paid from the day following that of the officer's death to the thirtieth day of June next ensuing; and subsequent payments shall be made quarterly in advance from the first day of July in each year. 16. No pension or compassionate allowance shall be granted unless the Treasury Board reports that the person to whom it is proposed to grant it is eligible within the meaning of this Act. 17. This Act shall apply, instead of The Civil Service Superannuation Act, or The Civil Service Retirement Act,(a.) to every officer hereafter appointed to the force; (b.) to every officer now in the force who is not subject to the provisions of The Civil Service Superannuation Act or The Civil Service Retirement Act; (c) to every officer now in the force who is within the provisions of The Civil Service Superannuation Act or of The Civil Service Retirement Act, and who, within six months from the coming into force of this Act, elects to accept the provisions of this Act in lieu of those of The Civil Service Superannuation Act or of The Civil Service Retirement Act. 2. Any deduction made from the pay of an officer towards under R.S.C., the Civil Service Superannuation Fund or the Civil Service. Retirement Fund may, if such officer elects to accept the provisions of this Act, be counted as part of the five per cent deduction required by section four of this Act. c. 18, and 1898, c. 17. Commencement of Act. 18. This Act shall come into force on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and two. OTTAWA Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty. CHAP. 23. An Act to amend the Naturalization Act. [Assented to 15th May, 1902.] IS Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the follows: ss. 11, 36, 42. defined 1. For the purposes of The Naturalization Act, chapter 113 R.S.C., c. 113, of the Revised Statutes, and of this Act, the clerk of the peace Clerk of of any county in Ontario shall be deemed to be the "clerk" certain courts of the General Sessions of the Peace of that county, and the prothonotary of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia for any county shall be deemed to be the "clerk" of that court in relation to matters arising in or dealt with in that county. made by future naturalizations, etc. 2. The clerk of every court which, by or under The Natur- Returns to be alization Act, is required to grant such certificates shall, on or clerks of before the fifteenth days of January and July in each and every courts, as to year, make a return to the Secretary of State of Canada of all persons to whom certificates of naturalization or of readmission to British nationality have been granted by such court, or who have taken the oath and been granted the certificates referred to in sections 41 and 42 of the said Act for the half years ending respectively with the thirty-first day of December and the thirtieth day of June next preceding the date of such returns. such returns. 3. Such returns shall set forth with respect to each such Contents of person his name, residence and addition, and his former residence and nationality, the nature of the certificate granted or oath taken, the date when and the place where the same were granted or taken, and any other particulars which the Governor in Council may require, and shall be accompanied by certified copies of each certificate granted during the half year. be made by 4. The clerk of every such court, and every officer or per- Returns to son who is the legal custodian of the records of any certifi- clerks of cates of naturalization or of readmission to British nationality courts and heretofore granted under any Act of the Parliament of dians of 141 Canada, legal custo |