4Additional allowances

4 Additional allowances

(1) Where a transferred officer receives from the Commonwealth or from the Commonwealth and from the State from the public service of which he was transferred to the public service of the Commonwealth, a pension or a retiring allowance of a periodical nature and the total amount of the pension or retiring allowance is at a rate less than Three hundred and sixty pounds per annum, there shall be payable to the transferred officer an allowance:

(a) if the total amount of the pension or retiring allowance is at a rate which does not exceed Two hundred and eighty‑eight pounds per annum—at the rate of one‑quarter of that amount; or

(b) if the total amount of the pension or retiring allowance is at a rate which exceeds Two hundred and eighty‑eight pounds per annum but is less than Three hundred and sixty pounds per annum—at such rate as will increase the total amount of the pension or retiring allowance to Three hundred and sixty pounds per annum.