Admiralty Order in Council No. 139.

c.

9th February 1901.

Whereas we have had under consideration the regulations for the Staff of Nursing Sisters in Your Majesty's Naval Hospitals, especially in regard to the system under which the Sisters have hitherto been superannuated as Civilians :

And whereas we are of opinion that it is desirable to assimilate the system of retirement to that established under Her late Majesty's Royal Warrant for Army Nursing Sisters, we beg leave humbly to recommend that your Majesty will be graciously pleased by Your Order in Council, to sanction the regulations for the retirement and award of pensions, to the Staff of Nursing Sisters in Your Majesty's Naval Hospitals, as embodied in the Schedule attached :

We further submit that all their existing rights shall be reserved to the Members of the Staff of Nursing Sisters who are already in the Service.

The Lords Commissioners of Your Majesty's Treasury have signified their concurrence in these proposals.

Schedule.

1. A Head Sister or a Nursing Sister shall be eligible to retire on pension after 10 years' service, if she is rendered unfit for Hospital duty through disease or injury, certified by two medical officers specially appointed to examine her.
2. A Head Sister shall not continue in the Service after the age of 65, nor a Nursing Sister after 50 ; and both Head Sisters and Nursing Sisters may be called upon at any time to retire on the pension or gratuity earned by their service, should such a course be held to be desirable on public grounds by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, whose decision will be final.
3. A Head Sister pensioned for disability under the age of 55, or a Nursing Sister under the age of 50, shall be liable, should such disability cease, to be called upon to re-enter the Service with the salary to which she would have been entitled had she not been disabled, and should she refuse so to re-enter the Service her pension shall cease.
4. The pension of a Head Sister or Nursing Sister shall be calculated solely upon her salary, and the rate shall, after 10 years* service, be 30 per cent, of her salary for the preceding year, and shall rise 2 per cent, of her salary for each additional year's service, to a maximum of 70 per cent, of her salary for the year preceding the grant of the pension.
5. A Head Sister or a Nursing Sister in any case of special devotion to her duties, may be granted a higher pension than that fixed by Par. 4, but not, however, exceeding �50 a year in all in the case of a Nursing Sister, or �20 a year in addition to the ordinary pension by service for a Head Sister.
6. A Head Sister or a Nursing Sister disabled in the Service, after five but under ten years' service, shall be granted such rate of pension below that fixed in Par. 4 as may be determined by the Board of Admiralty. If she has served for less than five years when disabled, she shall receive a gratuity, to be determined in like manner.
7. A Head Sister or a Nursing Sister, retired on account of unfitness for the duties of her appointment, may, provided she has not been guilty of misconduct, be granted a gratuity of one month's pay for each year of service, if not entitled to a pension under Par. 4.
8. In cases where, after a period of not less than six months' sick leave, a Head Sister or a Nursing Sister is pensioned for a disability not permanently unfitting her for duty, the pension shall cease on the date when she again becomes fit for duty, unless there should then be no vacancy, in which case, should she be willing to continue her service, she may remain on pension for a period not exceeding one year, pending a vacancy.
9. A Head Sister or a Nursing Sister retiring, without having previously obtained permission to do so, or being dismissed for misconduct, shall forfeit all claim to pension or gratuity.

C. 2808 / 1901.

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