[Sidenote: (2.) After five years’ Service Pension for Disability.] (2.) That, after five years’ service, the Nurse shall, in the case of ABSOLUTE DISABILITY, become entitled to a pension during the period of her disability. [Sidenote: (3.) Pension on a Scale graduated on the Wages.] (3.) The pension will be on a scale graduated on the wages. It will be twenty per cent. of the annual wages in the year of service, 5–6, and the rate to be granted will rise progressively two per cent. per annum, until the rate on the wages becomes seventy per cent. [Sidenote: (4.) All Nurses to retire at Sixty.] (4.) All Nurses will be placed on the Retired List at the age of sixty.[16] [Sidenote: (5.) Nurses to serve again who are Pensioned for Disability, when Disability ceases before Sixty.] (5.) Those Nurses who are pensioned at an earlier age, for disability, will, if called upon, be liable to serve when that disability ceases, or to forfeit their pension. They must therefore bring an annual medical certificate of disability to the Superintendent-General, in order to receive their pension. [Sidenote: (6.) Nurses partially Disabled to receive partial Pension.] (6.) Nurses who are partially disabled will only be entitled to a certain proportion of the pension allowed in the scale, to be determined, on representation made by the Superintendent-General. [Sidenote: Example.] Example. COMPLETED YEARS AGE. OF SERVICE. WAGES. PENSION. 30 0 £20? } 31 1 22 } 32 2 24 } Gratuity 33 3 26 } 34 4 28 } ---------------------------------------- 35 5 30 × ·2 = £6 40 10 40 ·3 12 45 15 50 ·4 20 50 20 50 ·5 25 55 25 50 ·6 30 60 30 50 ·7 35 These principles, if admitted, would suggest the following heads for regulations as to Nurses’ wages and pensions:-- [Sidenote: (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. [Sidenote: (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. [Sidenote: (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. [Sidenote: (4.) Rate of Pension.]