Supreme Court Officers (Retirement, Pensions, &c.) Act 1921

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1921 c. 56
Year1921


Supreme Court Officers (Retirement, Pensions, &c.) Act, 1921

(11 & 12 Geo. 5.) CHAPTER 56.

An Act to make further provision with respect to the appointment, conditions of service and pensions of certain Officers of the Supreme Court in England, and to authorise the abolition of certain offices therein, and for purposes connected therewith.

[19th August 1921]

Be it enacted by the King'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 Compulsory retirement of certain officers of the Supreme Court.

1 Compulsory retirement of certain officers of the Supreme Court.

1. A person holding any of the offices in the Supreme Court in England specified in the First Schedule to this Act shall vacate his office at the end of the completed year of service in the course of which he attains the age of seventy-two years:

Provided that, where the Lord Chancellor considers it desirable in the public interest to retain any such person in the public service after he attains the age of seventy-two years, he may, with the approval of the Treasury, authorise his continuance in the service up to such later age, not exceeding seventy-five years, as he thinks fit.

S-2 Pensions of certain officers of the Supreme Court.

2 Pensions of certain officers of the Supreme Court.

(1) The provisions of the Superannuation Acts, 1834 to 1914, shall apply to persons holding any of the offices specified in Part I. of the First Schedule to this Act, subject to the following modifications:—

(a ) On the retirement of a person from any of the offices aforesaid there may be granted to him a superannuation allowance calculated in accordance with the provisions of the Second Schedule to this Act instead of a superannuation allowance calculated in accordance with the provisions of the Superannuation Acts, 1834 to 1914:

(b ) Section two of the Superannuation Act, 1909 (which authorises the grant of a gratuity in case of death), section three of that Act (which provides for the application of the Act to existing male civil servants), and subsection (2) of section six of that Act (which relates to compensation for abolition of office), and section two of the Superannuation Act, 1914 (which amends subsection (1) of section two of the Superannuation Act, 1909), shall not apply to a person retiring or removed from any of the offices aforesaid:

(c ) It shall not be lawful to grant any superannuation allowance under the provisions of this section to any person who is under the age of seventy-two years, unless upon a medical certificate to the satisfaction of the Treasury to the effect that he is incapable from infirmity of mind or body of discharging the duties of his office and that the infirmity is likely to be permanent, or unless he has served fifteen years in one or more of the offices specified in Part I. of the First Schedule to this Act and has attained the age of sixty-five years:

The foregoing provisions of this paragraph shall have effect in substitution for section ten of the Superannuation Act, 1859(which prohibits the grant of superannuation allowance to a person under the age of sixty years except upon evidence of infirmity):

Provided that—

(i) the foregoing provisions of this section shall not apply to any person who was first appointed to one of the offices aforesaid before the first day of January, nineteen hundred and twenty, or who, having been so appointed after that date, was at the time of his appointment, whether he was appointed before or after the passing of this Act, a civil servant within the meaning of the Superannuation Act, 1887 , unless he gives notice of his desire to accept those provisions in lieu of the general provisions of the Superannuation Acts, 1834 to 1914:

(ii) any person who holds any of the offices aforesaid at the commencement of this Act, and who has the option of accepting or not accepting the foregoing provisions of this Act may, if he was appointed to any such office as aforesaid after the passing of the Superannuation Act, 1909, or has adopted the provisions of that Act, without prejudice to his power to give notice under the foregoing provisions of this section, give notice that he desires to accept those provisions with the substitution for the allowances under the Second Schedule to this Act of the allowances and other benefits set out in the Third Schedule to this Act, and this section shall, in any such case, apply accordingly.

(2) A notice for the purpose of the foregoing provisions shall be in such form, and shall be given within such period, as may be prescribed by the Lord Chancellor.

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