Superannuation Act 1834

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1834 c. 24
Anno Regni GULIELMI IV. Britanniarum Regis,Quarto. An Act to alter, amend, and consolidate the Laws for regulating the Pensions, Compensations, and Allowances to be made to Persons in respect of their having held Civil Offices in His Majesty's Service.

(4 & 5 Will. 4) C A P. XXIV.

[25th July 1834]

'WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Fifty-seventh Year of the Reign of His late Majesty KingGeorge the Third, to enable His Majesty to recompense the Services of Persons holding or who have held certain high and efficient Civil Offices, His Majesty is empowered to grant Pensions, as therein provided, to Persons who shall have served His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, in the Offices therein mentioned: And whereas by an Act passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of His late MajestyKingGeorge the Fourth, for amending the said recited Act, it is enacted, that the several other Offices therein particularly described shall be deemed to be comprised in the several Classes of Offices in the said recited Act respectively specified: And whereas it is expedient that the Amount of the Pensions by the said Two Acts authorized to be granted should as to future Pensions be reduced, and the Conditions under which the same shall be granted be altered and regulated.' Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritualand Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this Act no Pension to be granted to any Person in respect of his having served in any One or more of the Offices of First Lord of the Treasury, or of One of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, or Chancellor of the Exchequer, or First Lord of the Admiralty, or President of the Board of Commissioners for the Affairs ofIndia , or President of the Committee of Council appointed for the Consideration of Matters relating to Trade and Foreign Plantations, shall exceed the Sum of Two thousand Pounds per Annum ; nor shall any such Pension be granted to any Person unless he shall have held One or more of the said Offices for a Period of not less than Two Years in the whole, either uninterruptedly or at different Times; nor shall any more or greater Number than Four such Pensions hereafter to be granted be existing or in force at the same Time.

S-II Chief Secretary of Ireland, Secretary at War;

II Chief Secretary of Ireland, Secretary at War;

II. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act no Pension to be granted to any Person in respect of his having served in either or both of the Offices of Chief Secretary forIreland or Secretary at War shall exceed the Sum of One thousand four hundred Pounds per Annum , nor shall any such Pension be granted to any Person unless he shall have held One or both of the said Offices for a Period of not less than Five Years in the whole, either uninterruptedly or at different Times; nor shall any more or greater Number than Two such last-mentioned Pensions be existing or in force at the same Time.

S-III Joint Secretaries of the Treasury, First Secretary of Admiralty, Vice President of Board of Trade;

III Joint Secretaries of the Treasury, First Secretary of Admiralty, Vice President of Board of Trade;

III. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act no Pension to be granted to any Person respect of his having served in any One or more of the Offices of One of the Joint Secretaries he Treasury, or First Secretary of the Admiralty, or Vice President of the Committee of Commissioners appointed for the Consideration of Matters relating to Trade and Foreign Plantations, shall exceed the Sum of Twelve hundred Poundsper Annum ; nor shall any such Pension be granted to any Person unless he shall have held One or more of the said Offices for a Period of not less than Five Years in the whole, either uninterruptedly or at different Times; nor shall any more or greater Number than Four such last-mentioned Pensions be existing or in force at the same Time.

S-IV Under Secretaries of State, Clerk of the Ordnance, Second Secretary of Admiralty, Secretaries of India Board.

IV Under Secretaries of State, Clerk of the Ordnance, Second Secretary of Admiralty, Secretaries of India Board.

IV. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act the Pension, not exceeding One thousand Pounds, authorized by the said recited Act to be granted to any Person in respect of his having served in any One or more of the Offices of One of the Under Secretaries of State, or Clerk of the Ordnance, or Second Secretary of the Admiralty, or One of the Secretaries of the Board of Commissioners for the Affairs ofIndia , shall not be granted to any such Person unless he shall have held One or more of the said Offices for a Period of not less than Ten Years in the whole, either uninterruptedly or at different Times; nor shall any more or greater Number than Six such last-mentioned Pensions be existing or in force at the same Time.

S-V Regulation as to Period of Service.

V Regulation as to Period of Service.

V. Provided always, and be it enacted, That in case it shall happen that any Person shall have served His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, in more than One Class of Offices herein-before specified, in respect whereof any Pension less than Two thousand Pounds may be granted, it shall be lawful to grant, under the Regulations aforesaid, to such Person any Pension annexed to the highest Class of Office in which such Person may have been employed, whenever the whole Period of the Service of such Person in the several Offices in which he shall have been employed shall amount to Ten Years, although the Period of the Service of such Person in such highest Class shall not have extended to the Period of Five Years; provided always, that such Person shall have served in such highest Class for the Period of not less than three Years; and in Cases in which the Service of any such Person in any Class of those Offices shall not be sufficient to entitle him to the Pension of that Class, it shall be lawful to grant him a Pension not exceeding One thousand Pounds, provided the Period of his aggregate Services in that and any inferior Class or Classes or Department of the Public Service shall amount to Ten Years: Provided also, that there shall not be more than the aforesaid Number of Pensions to that Amount existing at the same Time.

S-VI Declaration to be made by Persons claiming Pensions.

VI Declaration to be made by Persons claiming Pensions.

VI. 'And whereas the Principle of the Regulations for granting Allowances of this Nature is and ought to be founded on a Consideration, not only of the Services performed by the Individual to the State, but of the Inadequacy of his private Fortune to maintain his Station in Life;' be it therefore enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act, whenever any Person shall seek to obtain any One of the Pensions before mentioned, his Application for that Purpose shall be made in Writing to the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, to which he shall subscribe his Name, and which shall contain, not only a Statement of the Services performed by him, and the Grounds on which such Pension is claimed, but a specific Declaration that the Amount of his Income from other Sources is so limited as to bring him within the Intent and Meaning of this Act and the Principle herein above declared, and without such Declaration no Pension as herein-before provided or authorized shall be granted.

S-VII Regulations with respect to Pensions contained in recited Acts to apply to Pensions under this Act.

VII Regulations with respect to Pensions contained in recited Acts to apply to Pensions under this Act.

VII. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That the several Regulations with respect to the granting of any of the before-mentioned Pensions, and to the Receipt thereof by the Persons to whom such Grants may be made, which are contained in the said recited Act of the Fifty-seventh Year of KingGeorge the Third and the Sixth Year of King George the Fourth, shall continue in full Force and Effect, and be applicable to Pensions to be granted under the Authority of this Act, except so far as any such Regulations are altered or repealed by the Enactments contained in this Act.

S-VIII Repeal of 50 G. 3. c. 117.

VIII Repeal of 50 G. 3. c. 117.

VIII. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act an Act made in the Fiftieth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty KingGeorge the Third, to direct that Accounts of Increase and Diminution of Public Salaries, Pensions, and Allowances shall be annually laid before Parliament, and to regulate and control the granting and Payment of such Salaries, Pensions, and Allowances; and Twoseveral Acts passed in the Fifty-first Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty and in the ThirdYear of His late Majesty KingGeorge the Fourth, severally to amend the said Act of the FiftiethYear of the Reign of KingGeorge the Third; and also an Act passed in the Fifth Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty King George the Fourth, to amend the said Act of the Third Year of His said Majesty'sReign; and so much of an Act passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty, to regulate the Payment of Salaries and Allowances to British Consuls, as respects the Allowance to be made to such Consuls in the Nature of Superannuation or Reward for meritorious Public Services; shall be and the same are hereby repealed, except so far as relates to any Matter or Thing already done under the said Acts or either of them.

S-IX Superannuation Allowance to Persons who entered the Service before 5th Aug. 1829.

IX Superannuation Allowance to Persons who entered the Service before 5th Aug. 1829.

IX. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act the Superannuation Allowances to be granted to such...

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