This Act may be cited as the Government Railways Amendment Act, 1911, and shall form part of and be read together with the Government Railways Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

The Third Schedule to the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting all references to guards, signalman, storemen, shunters, crane-drivers, night-watchmen, captains, and engineers from Class One of the Second Division, by omitting Class Two of the Second Division, and by omitting Subclasses One to Twelve of Class Three of the Second Division, and substituting the provision contained in the Schedule hereto.

Every person who is first appointed to the permanent staff of the Government Railways Department after the passing of this Act and who has any period of continuous service precedent to the date of such appointment shall, on being so appointed, pay contributions to the Government Railways Superannuation Fund as from the third day of January, nineteen hundred and three (being the date on which contributions first became payable to the fund under the Government Railways Superannuation Fund Act, 1902), or from the date on which his precedent period of continuous service commenced if later than the third day of January, nineteen hundred and three, and shall thereupon be entitled to count such continuous service for superannuation purposes.

The rate of contribution payable under this section shall be determined by reference to the age of the contributor as on the date from which he becomes liable to pay contributions to the fund in accordance with this section.

Any such person may, in the alternative, elect to pay contributions from the date of his permanent appointment as aforesaid, in which case his service for superannuation purposes shall be deemed to commence as from the date of his appointment, and he shall not be entitled to count any precedent period of service.

All moneys belonging to the Government Railways Superannuation Fund and payable to the Public Trustee shall form part of the common fund of the Public Trust Office.

Section seventy-six of the principal Act is hereby repealed.

Section eighty of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, before the words “but in no case” in subsection one, the words “and for every fraction of a year he shall receive a proportionate part of one-sixtieth of his annual rate of pay.”