Superannuation (President of Industrial Court) Act 1954
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1954 c. 37 |
Superannuation (President of Industrial Court) Act, 1954
(2 & 3 Eliz. 2) CHAPTER 37
An Act to provide for pensions and other superannuation benefits in respect of service as president of the Industrial Court.
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 Pension for service as president of industrial court.
(1) The Minister of Labour and National Service (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Minister’) may from time to time make to the Treasury, as respects any holder of the office of president of the Industrial Court constituted under the Industrial Courts Act, 1919 , a recommendation that the Treasury shall pay to him an annual sum by way of superannuation allowance on his retirement after not less than five years' relevant service:
Provided that no such allowance shall be payable if the person to whom the recommendation relates (hereinafter referred to as ‘the pensioner’) retires before attaining the age of sixty-five years unless either his appointment has been terminated on the ground that he has become incapable, owing to infirmity of mind or body, of the efficient discharge of his duties or he has resigned his appointment on that ground and the Minister is satisfied by means of a medical certificate both of his incapacity and that it is likely to be permanent.
(2) The said annual sum shall be a sum not exceeding the proportion of the pensioner's last annual salary which in the table set out in the Schedule to this Act corresponds with the number of the pensioner's completed years of relevant service.
(3) In this section the expression ‘relevant service’ means service as president of the Industrial Court or service reckonable for any pension, superannuation or other retiring allowance, or gratuity, being service in any such other capacity under the Crown as may be prescribed by regulations made by the Treasury; and regulations under this subsection—
(a ) may be made generally or subject to specified exceptions or in relation to specified cases or classes of case;
(b ) may provide that in calculating relevant service either the whole of a person's prescribed service of any description shall be taken into account or such part thereof only as may be determined by or under the regulations;
(c ) may make...
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