Royal (late Indian) Ordnance Corps Act 1874

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1874 c. 61
Year1874


Royal (late Indian) Ordnance Corps Act, 1874

(37 & 38 Vict.) CHAPTER 61.

An Act for granting Compensation to Officers of the Royal (late Indian) Ordnance Corps.

[7th August 1874]

W HEREAS it is expedient to grant compensation, in manner herein-after mentioned, to officers of the Royal (late Indian) Ordnance Corps:

Be it therefore 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 Short title.

1 Short title.

1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as ‘TheRoyal (late Indian) Ordnance Corps Act, 1874.’

S-2 Compensation to officers of the Royal \(late Indian) Ordnance Corps.

2 Compensation to officers of the Royal \(late Indian) Ordnance Corps.

2. Subject as herein-after mentioned, the Army Purchase Commissioners acting, under the Regulation of the Forces Act, 1871, in this Act referred to as the Commissioners, shall have power to consider the claims on retirement of any officers, who on the first day of November one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, were serving in any one of the corps following; that is to say,

The Royal (late Bengal) Artillery,

The Royal (late Bengal) Engineers,

The Royal (late Madras) Artillery,

The Royal (late Madras) Engineers,

The Royal (late Bombay) Artillery, or

The Royal (late Bombay) Engineers;

and to grant to any of the said officers who have retired since the said first day of November, or who may hereafter be permitted to retire, a compensation equal to the sums they would have received according to the custom, if any, of their corps, as or in the nature of a bonus for such retirement had they retired from their regiment on the said day, after deducting such sums (if any) as they may have received from the Indian revenues in respect or on account of such bonus.

S-3 Condition precedent to payment of compensation.

3 Condition precedent to payment of compensation.

3. Compensation shall not be granted in pursuance of this Act to any officer of any of the said corps until arrangements have been made to the satisfaction of the Commissioners, and in such manner as they may direct, for payment or securing payment into the receipt of the Exchequer, for the use of the public, by or on account of the corps to which such officer belongs, of any available sums, securities, or obligations constituting or standing to the account of any sinking fund or other fund...

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