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74 (i
v. social movements.
view, a special board of inspectors has been created for these societies, which,
for the present, forms part of the Royal Social Board (Socialstyrelsen). Under
the provisions of the Act, provident societies are in certain circumstances liable
to compulsory registration. Liability to registration sets in as soon as the
number of members in a friendly society exceeds 50. The following classes
of societies, however, are exempt from the provisions of the Act, namely (1)
institutions in which the State or commune is liable for the dispensation of
the benefits (2) pension funds for persons employed in the public service, and
which by a Royal Ordinance have been declared exempt from the terms of
the Act.
Our knowledge of the pension funds in existence is still very defective. The
sources at present available in this regard are (1) the quinquennial reports of
the Governors of the Läns, which have now ceased to exist, the last collection
■covering the quinquennium from 1901 to 1905, (2) two reports by experts on
the subject, dated 1905 and 1910. However, none of the sources referred to
can claim to be exhaustive.
Out of the 210 pension funds which, not counting the Seamen Registry
Offices, were accounted for in the quinquennial returns of the Governors of the
Läns, as far as data on the subject are available, 3 funds were established before
the close of the 18th century, 19 during the 18th century, 45 during the years
from 1801 to 1850, and 127 during the latter part of the 19th century; whereas
3 pension funds had come into existence after the ingress of the twentieth
century. The aggregate balance of the funds at the end of 1905 was 146 096 842
kr. No less than 63 pension funds, with a capital of 128 125 286 kr. (or 88 % of
the total assets of the funds) had their headquarters in the City of Stockholm,
though it should be observed that the operations of several of these funds
■extended over the whole of Sweden.
With regard to the amount of the capital in hand, and the grouping of the
pension funds according to the social position of their members, the following
figures are furnished by the experts’ reports, referred to above:
According to the 1905 Report (period 1902—03) According to the 1910 Report (period 1909) ’) Altogether
Number of Funds Balance in hand, kr. Number of Funds Balance in hand, kr. Number of Funds Balance in hand, kr.
1. Pension Funds for Employees in
the Public Service:
In the Civil Service..... 3 63 815 19 51 788 261 22 51852076
• » Militarv Service . ... 6 353 351 47 20 700 081 53 21053432
. » Education....... 1 365 790 11 35 408 363 12 35 774153
» > Church........ 11 162 321 22 12 954 835 33 13117156
» » Communal Service. . .11 1141 337 8 1 897 957 19 3 039294
Total 32 2 086 614 107 122 749 497 139 124836111
2. Pension Punds for officials and
workpeople in private employ . .22 7 688 346 41 14 264 480 63 21952826
3. Other Pension Funds..... 68 7 767118 31 4 325 323 99 12 092141
Altogether 122 17 542 078 179 141 339 300 301 158881378
Space will not permit of a more detailed account of the various pension
funds, for example, with regard to the amount of the fees, the conditions for
obtaining a pension, the amount of the pensions, and so forth. For information
on this head, the reader is referred to the brief accounts of some of these
funds that have been given under corresponding sections in the foregoing pages.
1 In addition to those accounted for in the 1905 Report.
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