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Pensions (Increase) Act 1969

As Enacted Cited authorities 102 Cited in Amendments 3 Related
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JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1969 c. 7
Year1969


Pensions (Increase) Act 1969

1969 CHAPTER 7

An Act to provide for increases or supplements in respect of certain pensions.

[6th March 1969]

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:—

S-1 General increase of public service pensions.

1 General increase of public service pensions.

(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the annual rate of a pension specified in Part I, II or III of Schedule 1 to this Act which began not later than 1st July 1967 may, in respect of any period beginning on or after 1st April 1969, be increased by the pension authority by an amount equal to a percentage of the adjusted rate of the pension.

(2) The said percentage shall, in the case of a pension which began at a time specified in the first column of Part IV of Schedule 1 to this Act, be that specified in relation thereto in the second column of that Part of the Schedule.

(3) In the case of a pension specified in Part II of Schedule 1 to this Act, it shall be the duty of the pension authority to increase the pension in accordance with this section, except that this does not apply to the gratuities specified in section 6 of the Act of 1962 (being gratuities payable in respect of local government service and granted by way of periodical payments or an annuity).

(4) The provisions of Schedule 2 to this Act shall have effect, being provisions for the interpretation of this section and otherwise consequential thereon or supplementary thereto, including provisions corresponding to, or extending or applying, provisions of former Pensions (Increase) Acts with respect to increases or supplements under those Acts.

S-2 Extension and amendment of previous Pensions \(Increase) Acts.

2 Extension and amendment of previous Pensions \(Increase) Acts.

(1) As from 1st April 1969, and in respect of any period beginning on or after that date, the Pensions (Increase) Acts specified in Schedule 3 to this Act shall have the extended application provided for by that Schedule.

(2) There shall be included among the pensions to which section 3 of the Act of 1962 applies (power of Minister of Overseas Development to make regulations authorising supplements to certain colonial and overseas pensions, corresponding to the increases provided by that Act and former Pensions (Increase) Acts) a pension payable by that Minister under section 5(1) of the Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1967 (former officers of Government of Palestine).

(3) Section 3(4) of the Act of 1962 (entitlement to supplement to be conditional on certain qualifications by reference to residence) is hereby repealed.

(4) In section 2(2) of the Act of 1965 (computation of pension increase where retirement is followed by further service), after the words ‘Schedule 1’ there shall be inserted the words ‘or is a pension specified in paragraph 10 or 11 of Part I of that Schedule and computed under the Superannuation Acts 1834 to 1949, or is a pension payable under section 15 of the Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1967 (metropolitan civil staffs)’.

(5) In section 3(2) of the Act of 1965 (power to provide pension increases by regulations in case of persons pensionable under approved superannuation schemes) the following shall be inserted after sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (a ):—

‘or

(iii) have been employed by the Wheat Commission; or

(iv) are members of the metropolitan civil staffs within the meaning of section 15 of the Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1967 or have been so, whether before or after the appointed day for the purposes of that section.’

(6) Section 2(1) of the Act of 1947 (obsolete power of pension authority to adjust amount of 1947 increase for benefit of pensioner under Old Age Pensions Act 1936 ) is hereby repealed.

S-3 Expenses.

3 Expenses.

3. There shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament—

a ) any expenditure incurred by a government department under or by virtue of this Act
b ) any increase attributable to any provision of this Act in the sums payable out of moneys so provided under any other enactment
S-4 Interpretation.

4 Interpretation.

(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—

‘the Act of’ a specified year means the Pensions (Increase) Act of that year;

‘enactment’ includes an enactment in a local Act and a provisional order confirmed by Parliament;

‘local authority’ has the meaning assigned to it by section 40 of the Local Government Superannuation Act 1937 or, in Scotland, by section 34 of the Local Government Superannuation (Scotland) Act 1937 ;

‘the Minister’ means the Minister for the Civil Service;

‘pension’ has the same meaning as in the Act of 1959, as extended by section 6 of the Act of 1962 (local authority gratuities);

‘pension authority’ means, in relation to a pension specified in paragraph 2 of Part III of Schedule 1 to this Act, the Minister and, in relation to any other pension, the authority by whom the pension is payable;

‘relevant increase’ means an increase by virtue of, or by reference to increases under, any of the following enactments, that is to say, the Acts of 1920 and 1924, the Acts of 1944 and 1947, the Act of 1952, the Act of 1954, section 1 of the Act of 1956, section 1 of the Act of 1959, section 7(1) of the Judicial Pensions Act 1959 , sections 1 and 2 of the Act of 1962, section 1 of the Act of 1965, and this Act;

and references to the increase of a specified year are to a relevant increase attributable to the Pensions (Increase) Act of that year.

(2) Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in this Act to an enactment shall be construed as a reference to that enactment as amended, extended or applied by or under any other enactment, including an enactment in this Act.

S-5 Citation and extent.

5 Citation and extent.

(1) This Act may be cited as the Pensions (Increase) Act 1969.

(2) The Pensions (Increase) Acts 1920 to 1965, sections 48(1) to (4) and 62(3) of the Superannuation Act 1949 , section 3 of, and Schedule 2 to, the Pensions (India, Pakistan & Burma) Act 1955 , section 7(1) of the Judicial Pensions Act 1959, section 17 of the Ministerial Salaries and Members' Pensions Act 1965 and this Act may be cited together as the Pensions (Increase) Acts 1920 to 1969.

(3) This Act extends to Great Britain only, except that—

(a ) it extends to Northern Ireland for the purpose of the 1969 increase of pensions payable under Schedule 8 to the Government of Ireland Act 1920 (former Irish civil servants) or payable to or in respect of an existing Irish officer within the meaning of that Act under the Superannuation Acts 1834 to 1965, or payable under or by virtue of any other Act extending to Northern Ireland out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom or out of moneys provided by the Parliament of the United Kingdom; and

(b ) it extends to Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands, for the purpose of the increase of pensions payable by the trustees of a trustee savings bank or by the Inspection Committee of trustee savings banks.

S C H E D U L E S

SCHEDULE 1

Table of Percentage Increases.Pensions Qualifying for Increase under Section 1;

I State Pensions

Part I

State Pensions

Past Prime Ministers

Past Prime Ministers

SCH-1.1

1. A pension payable under section 3 of the Ministerial Salaries Consolidation Act 1965.

Civil Service

Civil Service

SCH-1.2

2. A pension payable under the Superannuation Acts 1965 and 1967.

Administration of Justice

Administration of Justice

SCH-1.3

3. A pension payable under the Lord Chancellor's Pension Act 1832.

SCH-1.4

4. A pension payable, out of the Consolidated Fund or out of moneys provided by Parliament, under Part I of the Administration of Justice (Pensions) Act 1950(widows and children of judges and senior officials in the legal system, including the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Monopolies Commission).

SCH-1.5

5. A pension payable under section 9 of the County Courts Act 1934(county court judges).

SCH-1.6

6. A pension payable under section 20 of the Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1907or section 1 of the Sheriffs' Pensions (Scotland) Act 1961(sheriffs and salaried sheriffs-substitute).

SCH-1.7

7. A pension payable under section 34(1) of the Courts-Martial (Appeals) Act 1951(Judge Advocate General).

SCH-1.8

8. A pension payable under a relevant pension enactment as defined in the Judicial Pensions Act 1959(Lords of Appeal, Lords Justices of Appeal and High Court judges; senior judges in Scotland and Northern Ireland).

SCH-1.9

9. A pension payable under section 4(5) of the Criminal Justice Administration Act 1956(Recorder of Manchester or Liverpool).

SCH-1.10

10. A pension payable under the Superannuation (President of the Industrial Court) Act 1954.

SCH-1.11

11. A pension payable under section 2(6) of the Lands Tribunal Act 1949to a former member of the Lands Tribunal.

SCH-1.12

12. A pension payable under the Police Magistrates (Superannuation) Acts 1915 and 1929.

Teachers

Teachers

SCH-1.13

13. A pension payable under the Elementary School Teachers (Superannuation) Acts 1898 to 1912.

SCH-1.14

14. A pension payable under the Teachers (Superannuation) Acts 1918 to 1956.

This heading does not include—

a ) a pension specified in paragraph 7 of Part II of this Schedule; or
b ) so much of any pension payable under the said Acts of 1918 to 1956 as would not have been payable apart from an election under section 10(1) of the Teachers (Superannuation) Act 1956.
SCH-1.15

15. A pension payable under the Education (Scotland) Acts 1939 to 1967.

This heading does not include a pension granted under Regulation 45 of the Teachers (Superannuation) (Scotland) Regulations 1957.

SCH-1.16

16. A pension payable...

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