Superannuation Act, 1914

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SUPERANNUATION ACT 1914

CHAPTER 86.

An Act to amend the Superannuation Acts, 1834 to 1909. [18th September 1914.]

BE it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same, as follows :

Distribution of gratuities without probate in certain cases.

9 Edw. 7. c. 10.

50 & 51 Vict. c. 67.

1. Where the Treasury has decided to grant a gratuity to the legal personal representatives of a deceased civil servant under section two or section three of the Superannuation Act, 1909 , probate or other proof of the title of the personal representatives of the deceased may be dispensed with and the gratuity paid or distributed in manner provided by section eight of the Superannuation Act, 1887 , and that section shall apply accordingly as if such gratuity as aforesaid were a sum due to the deceased at the time of his death in respect of superannuation allowance.

Amendment of s. 2 (1) of Act of 1909.

2. The amount of the gratuity which may be granted under subsection (1) of section two of the Superannuation Act, 1909 , to the legal personal representatives of a civil servant who dies whilst still employed in the service shall be either the amount specified in that subsection or an amount equal to the amount of the additional allowance which the Treasury might have granted to him if he had retired from the civil service on the ground of ill-health at the date of his death, whichever may be the greater.

Amendment to s. 4 of Act of 1887.

3. If any person dies while in his employment, being a person to whom a gratuity might have been granted under section four of the Superannuation Act, 1887 , if at the time of his death he had retired from such employment because of infirmity of mind or body, the Treasury may, if they think fit, grant to his dependants such compassionate gratuity as they might have granted to the deceased person had he so retired.

Power to grant superannuation allowances to civil servants transferred to other employment in certain cases.

55 & 56 Vict. c. 46.

22 Vict. c. 62.

4.—(1) If a civil servant has been before the passing of this Act or is thereafter transferred, with the consent of the head officer of his department, to employment which is approved employment within the meaning of this section, it shall be lawful, upon his retirement from that employment under conditions which would have entitled him to any superannuation allowance, additional allowance, or gratuity had he continued to be employed as a civil servant, for the Treasury, if the head officer of the department in which he was serving at the time of transfer makes a recommendation to that effect, to grant to him, out of moneys provided by Parliament, such superannuation allowance, additional allowance, or gratuity as might have been granted to him if, at the date of transfer, he had retired from the Civil Service on the ground of ill-health.

(2) For the purposes of this section “approved employment” means employment, whether within or without His Majesty's Dominions (not being employment in a public office within the meaning of the Superannuation Act, 1892 , service in which qualifies for the grant of a superannuation allowance), which is recognised by the head officer of the department in which the civil servant was serving at the time of transfer, and by the Treasury, as being employment to which it is expedient that the provisions of this section should apply.

(3) Section twelve of the Superannuation Act, 1859 , is hereby repealed, but nothing in this repeal shall affect the rights of any officer who, before the passing of this Act, has been transferred from employment entitling him to a superannuation allowance to public employment under the Crown not so entitling him nor shall this repeal affect the said section as applied by any other enactment.

Repeal of s. 4 of the Act of 1859 and s. 3 of the Act of 1884 as to added years.

47 & 48 Vict. c. 57.

5. Section four of the Superannuation Act, 1859 , and section 3 of the Superannuation Act, 1884 (which relate to superannuation allowances of persons holding professional and other special offices), are hereby repealed, but nothing in this repeal shall affect the rights of any person who, before the date of the passing of this Act, has been appointed to an office to which an order, warrant, or minute of the Treasury, issued under either of the said sections, applied.

Repeal of s. 7(2) of the Act of 1887.

6. Subsection (2) of section seven of the Superannuation Act 1887 (which provides for the reduction of the pension, superannuation, and other allowance payable to a person when that person is or becomes lunatic towards whose maintenance contibution is made out of moneys provided by Parliament), is hereby repealed.

Short title.

7. This Act may be cited as the Superannuation Act, 1914; and the Superannuation Acts, 1834 to 1909, and this Act may be cited together as the Superannuation Acts, 1834 to 1914.