Section 4 Calculation of pension on change of appointment after fifteen years’ service.

Where a salaried sheriff-substitute who, after attaining the age of sixty years and after completing a period of relevant service of not less than fifteen years, has been appointed to the office of salaried sheriff-substitute at another place, retires from that office and becomes entitled under the provisions of this Act to a pension, his last annual salary for the purposes of section three of this Act shall be his annual salary on the day immediately preceding his appointment to the office from which he so retires, or his last annual salary in the appointment last mentioned, whichever is the greater.

Where a salaried sheriff-substitute, after attaining the age of sixty years and after completing a period of relevant service of not less than fifteen years, is appointed to the office of sheriff, and is not restricted by the terms of that appointment from engaging in private practice, section three of this Act shall apply to him on his ceasing to hold the office of sheriff in like manner as it would have applied if, at the date of his appointment as aforesaid, he had retired from the office of sheriff-substitute, and had qualified for a pension under this Act.