Ferdinand von Mueller

Item is a circular, individually addressed and forwarded from the Chief Secretary's Office to the heads of 15 departments within the Chief Secretary's Department.

Space left on file copy for the name of individual addressees.

Victoria, Public Service Act, 1883. The section referred to was an enabling clause allowing Regulations to be made: Subsection 9 allowed Regulations to be made 'for regulating and determining the scale on which officers shall insure their lives or for the payment to them of a sum of money or annuity at the date of their attaining the age of retirement from the public service'. The Regulations had required officers to arrange insurance to provide for a cash sum equivalent to two years' maximum salary as prescribed for the officer's grade to be paid upon retirement at age 60, or to 'personal representatives' upon death in service, or to pay an annuity on retirement that would pay annually at least 20 percent of the maximum for the relevant grade (Victoria government gazette, 31 January 1885, pp.500-502). The revised regulations were published in Victoria government gazette, 18 November 1887, p. 3297, and reduced the amounts required to be covered to one year's salary and 10 percent for annuities. The regulations also provided that if an officer had already lodged an insurance policy providing for a greater maturity value, the officer could negotiate with the insurance company that issued it to reduce the maturity value to that prescribed in the revised regulations. M's appointment predated Public Service Acts and he himself was not subject to the insurance provisions.