Education (Scotland) (Superannuation) Act 1925
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1925 c. 55 |
| Year | 1925 |
Education (Scotland) (Superannuation) Act, 1925
(15 & 16 Geo. 5.) CHAPTER 55.
An Act to make further provision with regard to the grant of superannuation and other allowances to teachers in Scotland and to their legal personal representatives, and to the payment of contributions towards the cost of such allowances.
[31st July 1925]
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:—
1 Extension of period during which contributions by or in respect of teachers are to be payable.
1. The period during which contributions shall be payable under section one of the Act of 1922 as amended by the Act of 1924, towards the cost of providing benefits under the Superannuation Scheme shall be extended until the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, and in the said Acts, or in any amending Scheme framed and approved in pursuance of the first mentioned Act, any reference to section one of the said Act shall be construed as a reference to the said section as amended by the Act of 1924 and by this Act.
2 Contributions towards benefits under Superannuation Scheme.
(1) As from the first day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, there shall be paid in each year to the Department towards the cost of providing benefits under the Superannuation Scheme, in respect of every teacher employed in service within the meaning of such scheme the following contributions:—
(a ) an amount to be paid by the teacher equal to five per centum of his salary for the time being;
(b ) an amount to be paid by the education authority, governing body or other body of managers by whom the teacher is employed, equal to five per centum of the salary for the time being of the teacher.
(2) The payments due in terms of the foregoing subsection shall be collected by the Department from each education authority, governing body or other body of managers either directly or by deduction from any grants that may accrue under any regulations, code or minute of the Department, and it shall be lawful for each education authority, governing body or other body of managers to deduct five per centum from the salary of every teacher in their employment in respect of whom payments are due under the foregoing subsection:
Provided that, where any payment due by a teacher has not been so deducted and collected, the same (together with compound interest thereon from the date when the payment became due, calculated at four per centum per annum with yearly rests) shall be recoverable by the Department either directly from the teacher or by deduction from any sum payable to him or to his legal personal representatives under the Superannuation Scheme.
(3) For the purposes of this section the salary of a teacher shall be calculated in accordance with rules under the Superannuation Scheme.
(4) All sums paid to or collected or recovered by the Department in pursuance of this section shall be paid into the Education (Scotland) Fund.
3 Amending Scheme to be framed.
(1) The Department shall as soon as may be after the passing of this Act frame an amending Scheme which shall be laid before each House of Parliament with a view to approval by Order in Council.
(2) Section eight of the Act of 1919 shall apply to any amending Scheme framed in pursuance of the foregoing subsection, in like manner as it applies to the Scheme framed in pursuance of that Act, provided that such amending Scheme shall not come into operation until the first day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-six.
4 Provisions of amending Scheme.
(1) The amending Scheme to be framed in pursuance of the immediately preceding section of this Act shall include provision—
(a ) for the repayment to a teacher or to his legal personal representatives, in circumstances and on conditions to be prescribed, of contributions made by him in terms of the Acts of 1922 and 1924 or of this Act, together with compound interest on each contribution as from the prescribed date calculated at the rate of three per centum per annum, with yearly rests and for the cancellation on such repayment of the service in respect of which the said contributions were paid;
(b ) for permitting a teacher in circumstances and on conditions to be prescribed to repay the sums repaid to him under the foregoing provisions of this section or under section two of the Act of 1922, together with compound interest thereon calculated from the date of repayment to him at the rate of three and a half per centum per annum with yearly rests, and for the restoration to such teacher on such repayment by him of such claims under the Superannuation Scheme as he would have had if no repayment had been made to him;
(c ) for securing that the total amount of benefit payable under the Superannuation Scheme to any teacher or to his legal...
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