CHAPTER 441

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 1 of Chapter 404 of the Acts of Assembly
of 1954, approved April 8, 1954, which provided an increase in retire-
ment compensation for certain retired State employees and teachers
and certain beneficiaries thereof. 'S 40]

Approved March 30, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 1 of Chapter 404 of the Acts of Assembly of 1954, approved
April 3, 1954, be amended and reenacted, as follows:

§ 1. On and after July one, nineteen hundred fifty *-siz the amount
of the retirement allowance otherwise payable to (1) any former teachers
who were retired under the provisions of Chapter 36 of the Code of 1919
as it existed immediately prior to July one, nineteen hundred forty-two or
(2) any teachers and State employees retired since June thirty, nineteen
hundred forty-two under the provisions of the repealed Virginia Retirement
Act with thirty or more years of service in case of service retirement or
twenty or more years of service in case of disability retirement, provided,
in the case of * service retirement such teacher or State employee has
attained sixty-five years of age, * shall be entitled to and shall receive
a retirement allowance in an amount, which, when added to the annual
retirement allowance otherwise payable shall not be less than * nine
hundred * dollars per annum; provided, however, that this provision shall
not apply to increase any retirement allowance of any retired teacher or
State employee receiving a retirement allowance which would have
amounted to * nine hundred * dollars per annum if a reduced allow-
ance had not been elected under one of the options under the repealed
Virginia Retirement Act, nor shall this provision apply to increase the
annual retirement allowance of any beneficiary who is receiving or who
may receive a retirement allowance as a beneficiary under one of the
options elected under the repealed Virginia Retirement Act. It is further
provided that any person, who was a member of the abolished system
having not been refunded contributions credited to his account and who
would have been credited with thirty or more years of service as a teacher
or state employee in the abolished System, except for the provisions of the
abolished Act authorizing establishment of prior service credit, may, upon
ma age sixty-five, qualify for and be paid the allowance herein
provided.