Pensions (Colonial Service) Act 1887
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1887 c. 13 |
| Year | 1887 |
Pensions (Colonial Service) Act, 1887
(50 & 51 Vict.) CHAPTER 13.
An Act to extend, in certain oases, the provisions of the Superannuation Act, 1859, and to extend and otherwise amend the provisions of the Colonial Governors (Pensions) Acts, 1865 and 1872.
[5th July 1887]
B E 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 Short title and construction.
1. This Act may be cited as thePensions (Colonial Service) Act, 1887, and shall be construed as one with the Superannuation Act, 1859, and with the Colonial Governors (Pensions) Acts, 1865 and 1872.
2 Application of Superannuation Acts to Colonial civil service.
2. Where a person who has been employed in any office in the permanent civil service of a colony has been employed also in some Imperial civil capacity, his service in the said office shall for the purposes of the Superannuation Act, 1859, and the Colonial Governors (Pensions) Acts, 1865 and 1872, and the Acts amending the said Acts, be deemed to be service in the permanent civil service of the State, and the said office shall be deemed to be an office in a public department, and the said person shall, subject as herein-after provided, be qualified to receive a pension accordingly.
Provided that the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury shall determine the portion of every such pension which shall be paid from the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom or moneys voted by Parliament, but no payment shall be made therefrom in respect of any employment in the permanent civil service of a colony.
The expression ‘Imperial civil capacity’ in this section means the permanent civil service of the State, and also the administration of the government of a colony within the meaning of the Colonial Governors (Pensions) Act, 1865.
3 Provision as to pensions under 28 & 29 Vict. c. 113., and 35 & 36 Vict. c. 29.
3. A person shall not receive by way of pension, under the Colonial Governors (Pensions) Acts, 1865 and 1872, an amount which, together with any pension for service in the permanent civil service of the State or of a colony...
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