(1.) Amount of Wages, first year, £20.
(1.) At whatever age a Nurse enters the service, the amount of wages paid to her during her first year of service, will be £20.
(2.) Annual rate of increase up to £50, when it ceases.
(2.) There will be an annual rate of increase of wages equal to 10 per cent, of the first year’s wages, until the yearly wages amount to £50, beyond which there will be no further increase.
(3.) No Pension till Ten Years’ Service completed, nor for Disability till Five Years.
(3.) A pension will be awarded for service to any Nurse, who may retire, on account of age, at the expiry of ten full years’ service, but in case of disability, a Nurse shall receive a pension after five years’ service, or a gratuity, according to circumstances, if discharged for disability, before she has completed five years of service.
(4.) Rate of Pension.
(4.) Rate of Pension. The pension will be on a scale graduated on the wages. It will be 30 per cent. of the wages received by the Nurse in her tenth year of service, and the pension granted to Nurses who have served more than ten years, will rise at the rate of 2 per cent. of the wages for every additional year of service, until the pension amounts to 70 per cent. of the wages received during the year preceding its grant, beyond which no higher pension will be granted, except in cases of special devotedness to the public service, when an addition to the regulated rate of any pension may be granted on special recommendation, made by the Superintendent-General of Nurses, setting forth the nature of the service for which such augmented pension is to be granted.[17] But no such pension shall exceed the amount of £50.
(5.) Nurses, Pensioned for Disability, whose Disability ceases, may be called on for Service.
(5.) Any Nurse pensioned for disability, may be called on for service in the event of such disability ceasing before the age of sixty, in which case her wages will be the same as they would have been, had she not been disabled.