Foreign Service Act 1960
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Foreign Service Act, 1960
(8 & 9 Eliz. 2) CHAPTER 11
An Act to amend the law as to the superannuation benefits which may be granted to or in respect of certain members of Her Majesty's foreign service.
Be it enacted by the Queen'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 Limit on special increases of superannuation benefits which may be granted in certain cases.
(1) For the purposes of any grant after the passing of this Act under section two of the Foreign Service Act, 1943 (which provides that where the employment in Her Majesty's foreign service of an officer of a grade not lower than that of second secretary is terminated before the retiring age, and the Secretary of State certifies that the termination is desirable in the public interest, there may be granted to that officer a superannuation allowance and an additional allowance, together with additional amounts by way of special increases added to those allowances), in subsection (2) of that section the words from ‘subject’ onwards (which limit the amount which may be granted by way of such a special increase) shall cease to have effect, and instead thereof the following provisions of this section shall have effect in relation to any such grant.
(2) Any such special increase added to the superannuation or additional allowance—
(a ) shall not be such as to bring the amount of that allowance up to an amount higher than that which could have been granted apart from any such increase if at the date of the termination of the officer's employment he had completed such reckonable service not exceeding forty years as he would have completed if he had continued in reckonable service in the same employment until he attained the age of sixty years; and
(b ) shall not exceed whichever is the higher of the following sums, that is to say—
(i) a sum equal, in the case of the superannuation allowance, to one-twelfth or, in the case of the additional allowance, to three-twelfths of the amount of the salary and emoluments upon which the superannuation allowance falls to be computed;
(ii) such sum as may be required to make that allowance equal, in the case of the superannuation allowance, to three-twelfths or, in the case of the additional allowance, to...
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