Merchant Shipping Act, 1894

Power to grant pensions.

665.(1) A general lighthouse authority may, with the sanction of the Board of Trade, grant superannuation allowances or compensation to persons whose salaries are paid out of the [2] Mercantile Marine Fund on their discharge or retirement.

(2) No superannuation, allowance or compensation granted under this section to a person shall exceed the proportion of his salary which may be granted to a person in the public civil service under the Acts relating to superannuation allowances or compensation for the time being in force.

Offences in connexion with Lighthouses, &c.

[2 Now the General Lighthouse Funds; see 61 & 62 Vict. c. 44. s. 1 (1) (c).]