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Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Treasury may grant to any civil servant who— a superannuation allowance computed by multiplying one-eightieth of the average annual amount of the salary and emoluments of his office during the last three years of his service by forty or by the number of completed years of his service as a civil servant, whichever is the less.

This section shall not apply in relation to any person for whom provision is otherwise made by Act of Parliament or who is specially excepted by the authority of Parliament.

Subject to the provisions of this Act, where a civil servant dies, after having served as a civil servant for not less than five years, while still employed in the civil service, the Treasury may grant to his personal representatives a gratuity of whichever of the two following amounts is the greater, that is to say—

Subject to the provisions of this Act, where a civil servant having become eligible for the grant of a superannuation allowance dies after he has retired from the civil service, and the sums paid or payable to him at the time of his death on account of such allowance, together with the sum received by him by way of additional allowance, are less than the average annual amount of the salary and emoluments of his office during the last three years of his service, the Treasury may grant to his personal representatives a gratuity equal to the deficiency.

Where— the same superannuation allowance and additional allowance, if any, may be granted to him as might have been granted to him if his reckonable service had been twenty years.

In the case of a person whose reckonable service would, if he had continued to serve in the employment in which he was when he was last a civil servant until five years after the retiring age, have been a period shorter than twenty years, subsection (1) of this section shall have effect as if for the last reference therein to twenty years there were substituted a reference to that shorter period: Provided that if his retirement was immediately preceded by a period no part of which counted towards reckonable service and it is recognised by the Treasury as a period throughout which he was on sick leave, this subsection shall only apply if the said period of reckonable service (that is, assuming that the person had continued to serve until five years after the retiring age) plus that period of sick leave together amount to a period shorter than twenty years, and then subsection (1) of this section shall have effect as if for such reference therein to twenty years there were substituted a reference to that shorter period.

This section applies only— and does not affect cases falling within, or pensions under the said Part III or the said Part IV falling to be computed by reference to the superannuation allowance grantable under, any provision (whether contained in this or any other Act) which provides for the grant, in other circumstances, of the same superannuation allowance or additional allowance as might be granted on retirement from the civil service on such a certificate.

Where a civil servant continues to serve as such after both the two following conditions are satisfied in relation to him, that is to say— any superannuation allowance or additional allowance which may be granted to him shall be calculated in accordance with the following provisions of this section.

The said allowances shall be computed— whichever is the higher.

For each completed year, not exceeding five, of the reckonable service of the civil servant after the said two conditions were satisfied in relation to him the superannuation allowance may be increased by one-eightieth of the higher of the amounts mentioned in subsection (2) of this section and the additional allowance, if any, may be increased by three-eightieths of the higher of those amounts: Provided that section 24 of this Act shall not apply to the computation, for the purposes of this subsection, of the reckonable service of a person after the said two conditions are satisfied in relation to him.

This section, so far as it applies to additional allowances, applies also for the purposes of section 4(1) of this Act.

If the employment of a civil servant who has attained the age of fifty years is terminated at his request before the retiring age, the same superannuation allowance and additional allowance, if any, may be granted to him as might have been granted to him if he had retired on a medical certificate: Provided that, unless the Treasury otherwise determine on compassionate grounds, no such allowance shall be granted to a person by virtue of this subsection before he attains the age which would have been the retiring age for him if he had continued in the employment in which he was when he was last a civil servant and if in continuing in that employment he had been employed in the United Kingdom.

Where a person who would have been eligible for the grant of a superannuation allowance but for the operation of the proviso to the foregoing subsection dies without any such allowance being granted to him, the Treasury may grant to his personal representatives such gratuity, if any, as might have been granted to them if he had died on the last day on which he was employed as a civil servant.

Where a civil servant is removed from his office on the ground of his inability to discharge efficiently the duties of his office, and a superannuation allowance cannot lawfully be granted to him, and the Treasury think that the special circumstances of the case justify the grant to him of a retiring allowance, they may grant to him such retiring allowance as they think just and proper, but in no case exceeding the amount for which his length of service would qualify him under section 1 of this Act.

A person to whom an allowance is granted under subsection (1) of this section may also be granted the same additional allowance, if any, as might have been granted to him if he had retired on a medical certificate.

Before granting any allowance under this section to any civil servant the Treasury shall consider any representations which he may have submitted to them.

A minute of the Treasury granting an allowance or allowances under this section to a civil servant shall set forth the amount of each allowance granted to him, and the reasons for granting it, and shall be laid before Parliament within fourteen days after being made.

The said allowances shall be computed— whichever is the higher.

For each completed year, not exceeding five, of continuous service in an unestablished capacity the superannuation allowance may be increased by one-eightieth of the higher of the amounts mentioned in subsection (2) of this section and the additional allowance, if any, may be increased by three-eightieths of the higher of those amounts.

If a person ceases to be a civil -servant and immediately re-enters the civil service to serve therein in an unestablished capacity, and when he ceases to be a civil servant,— the said odd part of a year shall be taken into account for the purposes of this section as if it were part of the service in an unestablished capacity.

Notwithstanding anything in section 6(3) of this Act, no year shall be taken into account thereunder which would make the number of years taken into account under that and subsection (3) of this section exceed five in all.

The enactments relating to the computation of reckonable service, other than section 24 of this Act, shall apply to the computation of service for the purposes of the proviso to subsection (1) of this section, and of subsection (3) of this section, as if it were established service.

If a person employed in an unestablished capacity dies while still in his employment after having served continuously therein for not less than five years the Treasury may grant a gratuity to his personal representatives.

If a person employed as aforesaid retires or is removed from his employment after having served continuously therein for not less than five years, the Treasury may, on the recommendation of the head officer of the department, grant a gratuity to him.

The rate at which a gratuity may be granted under either of the foregoing subsections shall be— Provided that the total amount of the gratuity shall not exceed the amount of one year's pay.

If a civil servant who, before he was a civil servant, was employed in an unestablished capacity dies without having completed sufficient service for it to be possible that a gratuity should be paid in respect of him, his employment as a civil servant may be treated for the purposes of this section as if it were employment in an unestablished capacity.

Service taken into account for the purposes of section 13 of this Act shall not also be taken into account for the purposes of this section.

Where a married woman who before her marriage was employed as a civil servant has in consequence of her marriage been transferred to employment in an unestablished capacity and no gratuity was paid to her on her marriage in respect of her service as a civil servant, then, for the purposes of this section, her said service shall be treated as if it were service in an unestablished capacity.

The part-time service to which this section applies is part-time service in the civil service where the person employed gives personal service of at least eighteen hours a week and the remuneration is defrayed entirely out of moneys provided by Parliament or the Post Office Fund.

Subject to the provisions of this subsection, section 15(1) to (4) of this Act, and section 21(2) thereof, shall apply in relation to persons who die while employed in, or retire or are removed from, part-time service to which this section applies, or who, having become civil servants after having been employed in such part-time service as aforesaid, die while still civil servants, as if references in those subsections to employment or service in an unestablished capacity were references to employment or service in such part-time service as aforesaid: Provided that—

Section 15(1) and (2) of this Act and those subsections, as applied by section 16(2) of this Act, shall have effect as if the references in those subsections to continuous service in an unestablished capacity or, as the case may be, in part-time service to which the said section 16 applies included references to service which is partly the one and partly the other (in this section called " mixed service ").

For the purposes of section 15(3) of this Act as it applies in relation to mixed service—

Subject to subsections (4) and (5) of this section, where section 18(5) of this Act applies in relation to mixed service—

Where the effect of this subsection would be to afford a larger gratuity to any person, the foregoing provisions of this section shall not apply to him, but for the purposes of sections 15, 16(2) and 18(5) of this Act the part of the mixed service which is service in an unestablished capacity shall be treated as if it were part-time service to which the said section 16 applies.

Where the effect of this subsection would be to afford a larger gratuity to any person whose mixed service began before 29th April 1965, the provisions contained in Schedule 2 to this Act, and not the foregoing provisions of this section, shall apply to him.

The reference in subsection (1) of this section to the widow of the person who is injured or contracts the disease shall, where that person is a female, be deemed to be a reference to her widowed husband if he is wholly or mainly dependent on her at the time of her death.

Where the person who is injured or contracts the disease is a civil servant, any allowance granted under this section to him shall not, together with any superannuation allowance, and the annuity value of any additional allowance, for which he is otherwise eligible, exceed five-sixths of the annual salary and emoluments of his office. In this subsection " annuity value " means, in relation to an additional allowance for which a person is eligible, the value thereof computed in accordance with the Tables for immediate life annuities framed under Part II of the Government Annuities Act 1929 which are in force when he ceases to be a civil servant. Any reduction effected or to be effected in the amount of any additional allowance by way of contribution under Part III or Part IV of this Act shall be left out of account for the purposes of this subsection and, accordingly, the annuity value of any additional allowance shall be determined as if no such reduction as aforesaid had been or had to be made.

Where the person who is injured or contracts the disease is a civil servant whose service, as computed for the purposes of section 4 of this Act, is less than five years and he dies as the direct result of the injury or disease, he shall be treated for the purposes of that section as if his service had amounted to five years.

Where the person who is injured or contracts the disease is a person employed in an unestablished capacity whose continuous service therein, as computed for the purposes of section 15 of this Act, is less than five years, or is a person in part-time service to which section 16 of this Act applies whose continuous service of that kind as so computed is less than five years, and he dies as the direct result of the injury or disease, his continuous service shall be treated for the purposes of the said section 15 as amounting to five years.

Where a civil servant recruited as such in the United Kingdom is employed outside the United Kingdom for the purposes of Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and suffers an aggravation of a disease from which he is already suffering, being an aggravation to which he is exposed by the nature of his duty outside the United Kingdom and which is not wholly or mainly due to his own serious and culpable negligence or misconduct, this section shall apply in relation to him as if, when he sustained the aggravation, he had contracted such a disease as is mentioned in subsection (1)(b) thereof.

A warrant under this section may be revoked or varied by a subsequent warrant of the Treasury thereunder.

If a warrant under section 18 of this Act authorises the Treasury to take into account, as against any sums otherwise payable under the warrant, any damages which are recovered or recoverable by or on behalf of the recipient of the payments under that section in respect of the injury, disease or death in consequence of which the payments are made, and the Treasury make any payments without taking such damages into account, then if and when the Treasury are satisfied that there are any damages to be so taken into account they shall have the right to recover from the recipient—

So far as any amount recoverable under this section represents a payment made by the Treasury from which income tax has been deducted before payment, the proper allowance shall be made in respect of the amount so deducted, and in this section " the net amount of the damages" means the amount of the damages after deducting any tax payable in the United Kingdom or elsewhere to which the damages are subject.

No proceeding shall be brought to recover any amount under this section—

A certificate issued by the Treasury and stating the date on which the final determination of any amount of damages first came to the knowledge of the Treasury shall be admissible in any proceedings as sufficient evidence of that date.

The provisions of this section are without prejudice to any right of the Treasury under any such warrant to take damages into account by withholding or reducing any further sums otherwise payable to the recipient of the payment.

If, at the time when any person became or becomes a civil servant, he was or is employed in an unestablished capacity, then, subject to subsections (2) and (3) of this section, his continuous service in such a capacity shall— be reckoned for the purposes of this Act as service in the capacity of a civil servant.

For the purpose of computing, in the case of any person, the service to be reckoned under subsection (1) of this section, no account shall be taken of any period for which that person has served before attaining the age of eighteen years.

The provisions of Schedule 3 to this Act shall have effect in relation to persons whose continuous service in employment in an unestablished capacity began before 27th June 1935 and who subsequently became or become civil servants.

The Treasury may direct—

Paragraphs (a) and (b) of the foregoing subsection shall apply for the purposes of section 15 of this Act as they apply for the purposes of section 20(1) thereof.

Where either of the following conditions is satisfied in relation to a person who on 14th July 1949 or at any time thereafter was or is a civil servant, that is to say— then, subject to the following subsection, his continuous service in such part-time service as aforesaid immediately before he became a civil servant or, as the case may be, immediately before he began to serve in an unestablished capacity, except so much thereof as took place before he attained the age of eighteen years, shall, as to one-half or, if and so far as that service took place before 14th July 1949, one-quarter of the period thereof, be reckoned for all the purposes of this Act as service as a civil servant.

The Treasury may direct—

If with respect to any person becoming a civil servant after attaining the age of forty years the Treasury have directed that he shall be subject to the provisions of this subsection, then, for the purposes of this Act, the length of his service shall be treated as eight-fifths of the actual length thereof.

If with respect to any person becoming a civil servant between the ages of thirty and forty years the Treasury have directed that he shall be subject to the provisions of subsection (1) of this section, those provisions shall apply in his case accordingly, but his service before attaining the age of forty years shall be disregarded for the purposes of this Act: Provided that, notwithstanding the direction, this subsection shall not have effect so as to prevent or reduce any award under this Act which might have been made if the direction had not been given.

No direction shall be given under this section in the case of any person after the expiration of six months from the date on which he became a civil servant.

Any direction under this section shall be laid before Parliament forthwith after being given.

This section shall apply in relation to such countries and places (being countries or places outside the United Kingdom) as the Treasury may by order specify (in this section referred to as " countries or places to which this section applies ").

Subject to the provisions of this section, in computing the amount of any superannuation allowance, additional allowance or gratuity, each year of actual service in a country or place to which this section for the time being applies, either as a civil servant or in an unestablished capacity, shall be reckoned as service as a civil servant or service in an unestablished capacity, as the case may be, for one and a half years and so proportionately as regards parts of a year: Provided that this subsection shall not apply to any service which would, apart from this subsection, fall to be reckoned for any of the purposes aforesaid at a rate greater than one and a half years for each year of actual service.

Subject to the provisions of this section, for each completed year of actual service as a civil servant in countries or places to which this section for the time being applies, the age on retirement at which without a medical certificate a superannuation allowance or additional allowance may be granted apart from the provisions of sections 7 and 10 of this Act shall be reduced by three months, so, however, that the said age shall not in any case be reduced below fifty-five years. Service in an unestablished capacity in countries or places to which this section for the time being applies which could be taken into account in computing the amount of any superannuation allowance shall be taken into account under this subsection as if it were service as a civil servant.

Nothing in this section shall, without the consent of the Treasury, apply to a person who was residing in a country or place to which this section for the time being applies when he first entered the civil service.

Nothing in this section shall affect the minimum period which it is requisite that a person should serve in order that a superannuation allowance, additional allowance or gratuity may become payable to or in respect of him.

Any order made under the Superannuation Act 1876 declaring a country or place to be an unhealthy place shall be deemed for the purposes of this section to be an order under subsection (1) of this section specifying that country or place for the purposes of this section.

Any order under this section may be revoked or varied by a subsequent order of the Treasury.

An order under this section may, if in the special circumstances of the case it appears proper to the Treasury so to frame the order, be so framed as to apply this section to a country or place as from a date before that of the making of the order, and where an order is so framed references in this section to a country or place to which this section for the time being applies shall be construed accordingly.

This section— Provided that, for the purpose of the computation of service required to be made by section 13 of this Act, this section shall have effect and be deemed always to have had effect in relation to every person to whom that section applies, whether or not he has served as a civil servant after 13th July 1949.

This section applies to employment in prisons and other institutions to which the Prison Act 1952 or the Prisons (Scotland) Act 1952 applies, whether with or without modifications, being employment of any such classes as the Secretary of State may with the approval of the Treasury by order prescribe.

Fifty-five years shall be substituted for sixty years as the age on retirement at which without a medical certificate a superannuation allowance or additional allowance may be granted apart from the provisions of sections 7 and 10 of this Act to a civil servant who retires from employment to which this section applies.

After twenty years of actual service, whether as a civil servant or in an unestablished capacity, in employment to which this section applies, each year of actual service in such employment shall be reckoned for the purpose of computing the amount of any superannuation allowance, additional allowance or gratuity as two years of service as a civil servant or, as the case may be, of service in an unestablished capacity, and so proportionately as regards parts of a year. The foregoing provision shall not be taken as affecting the reckoning of service in any year earlier than the twenty-first of the years of actual service mentioned in that provision, being service of the kind specified in that provision as extended by section 27(1) of this Act.

Any order or other instrument made or issued under the Superannuation (Prison Officers) Act 1919 prescribing an employment for the purposes of that Act shall be deemed for the purposes of this section to be an order under subsection (1) thereof prescribing that employment for the purposes of this section. This subsection applies to orders and instruments made or issued under the said Act in relation to employment in Broad-moor institutions or criminal lunatic asylums, or made or issued under section 10 of the Superannuation Act 1935, in relation to employment in institutions maintained by the Board of Control under sections 25 and 35 of the Mental Deficiency Act 1913, and the provisions of subsection (1) of this section shall be extended accordingly.

Any order under this section may be revoked or varied by a subsequent order of the Secretary of State made with the approval of the Treasury.

This section shall have effect in relation to any person who has served in an employment to which this section applies at any time after 13th July 1949 and, in relation to any such person, shall be deemed always to have had effect: Provided that, for the purpose of the computation of service required to be made by section 13 of this Act, this section shall have effect and be deemed always to have had effect in relation to every person to whom that section applies, whether or not he has served as a civil servant after 13th July 1949.

The Treasury may order that for the purpose of section 26(3) of this Act there shall be treated as employment to which that section applies employment of any kind specified in the order, being employment otherwise than in the civil service—

Where by virtue of an order under this section any such employment as is mentioned in subsection (1)(b) of this section is treated as employment to which the said section 26 applies, the said section 26(3) shall have effect subject to such modifications, if any, as may be specified in the order.

Except as otherwise provided by an order under this section, any such order shall have effect as respects employment of the kind specified in the order in periods before or after the making of the order.

Any order under this section may be varied or revoked by a subsequent order.

Where a person who was a civil servant on 14th July 1949 had, before he became a civil servant, served in whole-time service in the armed forces of the Crown, the merchant navy or the mercantile marine at any time between 4th August 1914 and 31st August 1921, then, if and so far as that service took place after the date on which he was declared successful in a competitive examination for persons desiring to become civil servants or, as the case may be, the date on which he was nominated by the head officer of a government department for appointment to the civil service, it shall be reckoned for the purposes of this Act as if it had been service as a civil servant.

For the purposes of this section a person who became a civil servant more than three months after the date on which he was declared or nominated as mentioned in the foregoing subsection shall be deemed to have served in whole-time service in the armed forces of the Crown, the merchant navy or the mercantile marine during the whole of the period between that date and the date on which he became a civil servant, unless the contrary appears.

Where a person entered the civil service during the period beginning with 3rd September 1939 and ending with 30th June 1950 after whole-time service during that period in the armed forces of the Crown, in the merchant navy or the mercantile marine, or in any of the women's services specified in Schedule 4 to this Act, then, for the purposes of sections 15, 20 and 21 of this Act, any such whole-time service as aforesaid served by that person after he had attained the age at which, in the opinion of the Treasury, he might but for war circumstances have been appointed to the civil service in the class in which he was in fact appointed shall, subject to any regulations made under this section, be treated as if it had been continuous service in an unestablished capacity ending immediately before the date on which the said person entered the civil service.

Where a person entered the civil service after 30th June 1950 through recruitment by a competition determined by the Treasury to be a reconstruction competition and after whole-time service at any time since 2nd September 1939 in any of the armed forces of the Crown, in the merchant navy or the mercantile marine, or in any of the women's services specified in Schedule 4 to this Act, then, for the purposes of sections 15, 20, 21 and 22 of this Act, any such whole-time service as aforesaid served by that person after he had attained the age at which, in the opinion of the Treasury, he might but for war circumstances have been appointed to the civil service in the class in which he was in fact appointed shall, subject to any regulations made under this section, be treated as if it had been continuous service in an unestablished capacity.

The Treasury may make regulations— so however that the regulations shall not prevent any service from counting for the purposes of so much of section 15 of this Act as requires a minimum period of service as a condition for the grant of a gratuity.

For the purpose of adapting this Act to the circumstances of persons whose employment in the civil service (in this subsection referred to as " usual employment") was interrupted or terminated by war circumstances, so as to authorise the making of awards which, or the amount of which, would not be authorised under this Act apart from this section, the Treasury may make regulations providing, in the case of persons of any class to which the regulations apply,—

In this section " war period " means the period beginning with 3rd September 1939 and ending with 31st December 1949.

The Treasury may make rules providing that where a person immediately before he entered upon compulsory national service was a civil servant or serving in an unestablished capacity, the period of his compulsory national service and such further period, if any, after the termination thereof as may be specified in the rules shall be treated for the purposes of this Act as service as a civil servant or in an unestablished capacity, as the case may be.

The foregoing subsection shall, subject to the following provisions of this section, apply in relation to persons who enter upon service of a description specified in Schedule 1 to the Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Act 1951 (hereinafter referred to as " the Act of 1951 ") as it applies in relation to persons who entered upon compulsory national service.

Where a person who had been successful in a competitive examination for persons desiring to obtain posts in the civil service entered upon compulsory national service before becoming a civil servant, and that examination, or any subsequent examination for persons desiring to obtain similar posts held before 29th April 1965, was one in which persons below the age of eighteen years were allowed to compete, then, where rules made under this section so provide, so much of the period of his compulsory national service as fell after the date on which the Civil Service Commissioners issued their certificate of qualification in relation to him, and such further period, if any, after the termination of his compulsory national service as may be specified in the rules, shall be treated for the purposes of this Act as service as a civil servant.

Where a person who has been successful in a competitive examination for persons desiring to obtain posts in the civil service or who has been nominated by a government department with the approval of the Treasury for appointment to such a post enters upon service of a description specified in Schedule 1 to the Act of 1951 other than compulsory national service, then, where rules made under this section so provide, so much of the period of such service of his as falls after the date on which the Civil Service Commissioners issue their certificate of qualification in relation to him and such further period, if any, after the termination of that period as may be specified in the rules shall be treated for the purposes of this Act as service as a civil servant.

Rules made under this section may make provision for securing that, where a person undertakes service of a description specified in Schedule 1 to the Act of 1951 other than compulsory national service—

Rules made under this section may be so framed as to apply, and to be deemed always to have applied— and rules so made in relation to persons in relation to whom the said subsection (1) applies by virtue of subsection (2) of this section, or in relation to any person referred to in subsection (4) of this section, may be framed so as to have effect as from 15th July 1950.

Rules made under this section may contain such consequential and incidental provisions as appear to the Treasury to be necessary or expedient, including provisions requiring the giving of information and the production of documents, and provisions repealing, revoking, varying or applying any statutory provision relating to the subject-matter of the rules; and any such rules may make different provision for different cases or classes of In this subsection "statutory provision" means a provision, whether of a general or special nature, contained in or in any document made or issued under any Act, whether of a general or special nature.

In this section " compulsory national service " means service in any of the armed forces of the Crown undertaken by virtue of an enlistment notice or a training notice served under the National Service Acts 1939 to 1947 or Part I of the National Service Act 1948 or work or training in pursuance of an order of a tribunal under section 5 of the National Service (Armed Forces) Act 1939 or work or training in pursuance of an order made or direction given under the said Part I as respects a conditionally registered conscientious objector.

Where, in connection with the provision of a new government service or the extension of an existing government service, persons have been taken into the civil service after having been employed by a body or organisation— and in the opinion of the Treasury their employment by that body or organisation was of the same nature and for the same purpose as their employment in the civil service, the Treasury may by rules provide for service in employment by that body or organisation being reckoned, in such manner and to such extent as may be specified in the rules, as service in the civil service for the purposes of this Act and modify in other respects the provisions of this Act as they apply in relation to those persons.

Rules under this section may, in relation to persons who had acquired or were in the course of acquiring pension rights in respect of their employment by any such body or organisation, in particular provide for making it a condition of obtaining benefits under this Act— In this subsection " pension right " includes all forms of right to or eligibility for present or future payments of a pension, lump sum or gratuity.

This section shall not apply in relation to employment of any of the kinds specified in section 35(1) or 36(1) of this Act, but, subject to that, this section shall apply whatever the time at which the persons concerned were taken into the civil service.

For the purpose of determining whether a civil servant has served for the minimum period prescribed under this Act for the payment of a superannuation allowance or additional allowance, or a gratuity to his personal representatives on his death, any service before he became a civil servant which is— shall, subject to subsection (2) of this section, be treated as if it were service as a civil servant.

Any service which under section 12(2) of the Teachers (Superannuation) Act 1925 or under the Scottish Regulations would, by reason of the repayment of contributions, be excluded in reckoning periods of contributory or recognised service for the purposes of Part II of the said Act of 1925 or in reckoning periods of first class service under the Scottish Regulations, as the case may be, shall be disregarded for the purposes of subsection (1) of this section.

Rules made by the Treasury under this subsection may make provision with respect to the pensions payable to and in respect of the following persons, namely— and any such rules may provide for service in any such employment as aforesaid being reckoned, in such manner and to such extent as may be specified in the rules, as service to the State for the purposes of this Act.

Rules made under the foregoing subsection may, in relation to persons of the class specified in paragraph (a) of that subsection who— include provisions requiring those persons to pay into the Exchequer amounts equal to the whole or any part of the contributions so returned to them as a condition of their service as officers or servants of a local authority as aforesaid being reckoned, to the extent specified in the rules, as service to the State for the purposes of this Act.

Rules made by the Treasury under this subsection may make provision to secure that benefits corresponding as nearly as may be to the benefits conferred under subsection (1) of this section on or in respect of the persons specified in paragraph (d) of that subsection are conferred on or in respect of persons who, having been employed by the aforesaid Meteorological Committee, were at any time before 28th May 1948 employed in the civil service in the aforesaid Meteorological Office and became, and thereafter remained, subject to a superannuation scheme to which section 89 of this Act applies.

Section 32(7) shall apply in relation to rules made under any provision of this section as it applies in relation to rules made under that section.

In this section—

Rules made by the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance, with the consent of the Treasury, may make provision with respect to the pensions payable to and in respect of persons who, having been employed full-time— became civil servants before such date as may be specified in the rules.

Any such rules may include provisions—

Where the persons having pension rights under any pension scheme or interested in any pension fund include both such persons as are mentioned in subsection (1) of this section and other persons in respect of whom the following conditions are fulfilled, that is to say— rules made under this section may apply in relation to pensions payable to and in respect of those other persons as if they were persons such as are mentioned in the said subsection (1), and may provide for payment out of moneys provided by Parliament in respect of the pension rights of those other persons, so, however, that nothing in this subsection shall be construed as requiring identical provision to be made in relation to persons who fall, and persons who do not fall, within the said subsection (1).

The provisions of this section shall have effect in relation to any persons notwithstanding that provision could have been, or could be, made in relation to those persons under any provision of the Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1948, other than section 3 thereof, or could be made in relation to them under section 32 or 35 of this Act, and nothing in any provision of the said Act of 1948 or of the said section 32 or 35 shall be construed as limiting the powers exercisable under this section.

Section 32(7) of this Act shall apply in relation to rules made under this section as it applies in relation to rules made under that section, but with the substitution for the reference to the Treasury of a reference to the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance.

In this section—

Where at some time before 30th September 1934 a person entered the civil service, after having served in a temporary capacity with the Imperial War Graves Commission, his service in a temporary capacity with that Commission before that time, but not before 1st January 1919, may, subject to the provisions of this section, be reckoned for the purposes of this Act as employment in an unestablished capacity.

Where the said Commission paid a gratuity to a person to whom the foregoing subsection applies in respect of his service with the Commission, it shall be a condition of the making of any payment under this Act in respect of that person's service, so far as the amount of that payment is dependent on the provisions of that subsection, that there has been paid to the Exchequer a sum equal to the amount of the said gratuity.

The Treasury may, if they think fit, deduct any amount payable to them under the last foregoing subsection from any allowance or gratuity payable in respect of the person in question under section 3 or 4 of this Act, or any other lump sum payment so payable under this Act, and, where they do so, the person entitled to the lump sum payment shall not be entitled to require any other person to make any contribution towards the deduction borne by him.

The Minister for the Civil Service may make rules with respect to the superannuation benefits payable to or in respect of persons who have been employed in more than one public office.

Rules under this section may in particular in relation to such persons— and rules under this section may include such supplemental and incidental provisions as appear to the Minister for the Civil Service to be expedient.

Rules under this section may provide either for separate pensions under the respective enactments relating to the different employments or for a single pension under the enactments relating to the later or latest employment (or by virtue of subsection (2)(b) of this section under the civil service scheme or employ partly the one method and partly the other: Provided that if the rules provide for separate pensions in relation to different public offices the rules shall not modify the civil service scheme or any other enactments so as to include as reckonable service in computing one of the separate pensions service in a public office in respect of which another of those separate pensions is payable.

Rules under this section may be so framed as to apply to persons ceasing to be employed in one public office and becoming employed in another notwithstanding that the cessation of the first employment or the commencement of the second employment was before the date of the making of the rules: Provided that no rules shall be framed so as to apply when the cessation of the first employment took place before the making of the rules unless the rules are only to apply with the consent of the person ceasing to be employed, or that person is by the rules given an opportunity to elect that they shall not apply to him.

If the application of the rules in force under this section would put a particular individual in a position less advantageous than that in which he would have been if the rules did not apply in relation to him, they shall not be so applied. (5A) References in this section to enactments shall be construed as including references to the civil service scheme, and in this section ”the civil service scheme’ means the principal civil service pension scheme within the meaning of section 2 of the Superannuation Act 1972 and for the time being in force.

In this section “pension”, in relation to any person, means a pension of any kind whatsoever payable to or in respect of him, and includes a lump sum or gratuity so payable.

In the last foregoing section references to employment in a public office shall be construed as references to employment of the following kinds, and “public office” shall be construed accordingly,—

The last foregoing section and this section shall have effect subject to the transitional provisions in paragraphs 10 and 11 of Schedule 10 to this Act.

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Rules in force under the last foregoing section shall not apply in relation to any person if the only public offices in which he has been employed have been employments in a capacity remunerated out of moneys provided by the Parliament of Northern Ireland or the Consolidated Fund of Northern Ireland.

Nothing in this or the last foregoing section shall authorise any department of the Government of Northern Ireland to incur any expenses attributable to the provisions of those sections until provision has been made by the Parliament of Northern Ireland for those expenses to be defrayed out of moneys provided by that Parliament.

The Lord Chancellor may with the consent of the Minister for the Civil Service make rules with respect to the superannuation benefits payable to or in respect of persons who have been employed—

The Secretary of State may with the consent of the Minister for the Civil Service make rules with respect to the superannuation benefits payable to or in respect of persons who have been employed—

The offices referred to in subsections (1)(a) and (2)(a) of this section are the following, that is to say—

Subsections (2) to (5) of section 38 of this Act shall have effect in relation to rules made under this section as they have effect in relation to rules under that section, as if—

Where any rules under this section make provision for any pension to be defrayed partly by one authority and partly by one or more other authorities, whether by way of contribution or otherwise, nothing in section 10(2) of the Criminal Justice Administration Act 1956 (which requires contributions to be paid by the city councils of Liverpool and Manchester in respect of the Crown Courts and recorders of those cities) shall be construed as preventing the rules from applying that provision to, or making any such provision specially in respect of, persons whose employment includes employment as recorder of Liverpool or recorder of Manchester.

In this section—

Where any person who, on ceasing to be a civil servant, was transferred to approved employment with the consent of the head officer of his department, retires from that employment under conditions which would have entitled him to any superannuation allowance, additional allowance or gratuity had he continued to be employed as a civil servant, and to be so employed in service in the United Kingdom, then, if the head officer of the department in which he was serving at the date of the transfer makes a recommendation to that effect, the Treasury may grant to him such superannuation allowance, additional allowance or gratuity as might have been granted to him if, at the date of the transfer, he had retired from the civil service on the ground of ill-health. In this section " approved employment " means employment, whether within or without Her Majesty's dominions (not being employment in a public office within the meaning of section 38 of this Act service in which qualifies for the grant of a superannuation allowance), which is recognised by the head officer of the department in which the civil servant was serving at the date of the transfer, and by the Treasury, as being employment to which it is expedient that the provisions of this subsection should apply.

Where any person who, on ceasing to be a civil servant, was transferred to approved employment with the consent of the head officer of his department, retires from that employment on the ground of age before attaining the age of sixty years and is, on such retirement, qualified for, or entitled to, the benefits of any system of superannuation applicable to the approved employment, the Treasury may either—

The foregoing provisions of this section shall apply to a person who, after being transferred from the civil service to approved employment, is with the consent of the Treasury transferred to one or more subsequent employments recognised by the Treasury as being employments to which it is expedient that the provisions of subsection (1) of this section should apply, subject to the following adaptations, that is to say—

Where any person who, on ceasing to be a civil servant, was transferred to approved employment with the consent of the head officer of his department dies while in that employment, the Treasury may grant to his personal representatives such gratuity, if any, as might have been granted to them if he had died on the day before the day of the transfer, after deducting therefrom the total amount of any sums paid or payable, under any system of superannuation applicable to the approved employment, in respect of his death.

Where any person who, after having served as a civil servant for not less than five years, was transferred to approved employment with the consent of the head officer of his department, dies after retiring from that employment in circumstances which qualified him for the grant of a superannuation allowance and an additional allowance under the last foregoing section, then if— the Treasury may grant to his personal representatives a gratuity equal to the difference.

The foregoing provisions of this section shall apply to any person who, after being transferred from the civil service to approved employment, is with the consent of the Treasury transferred to one or more subsequent employments recognised by the Treasury as being employments to which it is expedient that section 40(1) of this Act should apply, subject to the following adaptations, that is to say,—

The foregoing provisions of this section shall not apply in relation to any person who was transferred to approved employment before 27th June 1935.

In this section " approved employment " has the same meaning as in the last foregoing section.

The provisions of the principal civil service scheme within the meaning of section 2 of the Superannuation Act 1972 and for the time being in force shall, in relation to persons who, whether before or after they are civil servants, serve in a public office (not in the civil service) within the meaning of section 38 of this Act, or as members of a police force within the meaning of the Police Pensions Act 1976, or in service by virtue of which they are deemed for the purposes of that Act to be members of such a force, or who, having been civil servants, become Governors within the meaning of the Governors’ Pensions Act 1957, have effect subject to such adaptations and modifications as may be prescribed by rules made by the Treasury; and where rules are made under this subsection, they may contain provisions modifying, in relation to the persons affected by the rules, any other enactment relating to the pensions and other benefits payable to or in respect of them.

The provisions of this Act specified in subsection (3) of this section shall, in relation to persons who, having ceased to be civil servants, are employed in approved employment within the meaning of section 40 of this Act, have effect subject to such adaptations and modifications as may be prescribed by rules made by the Treasury, and rules made under this subsection may contain such provisions for modifying sections 40 and 41 of this Act as appear to the Treasury to be equitable having regard to the provisions of this Act specified in the said subsection (3), as modified by rules made under this subsection.

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The provisions of this Act referred to in subsections (1) and (2) of this section are sections 5, 6, 7, 10, 13 (except subsection (4)), 15(1) to (5), 16, 17, 18, 20(1), 21(2), 22, 23, 25, 26, 29, 43, 44 and 45(1), Parts III and IV, sections 83 to 88, 91, 94, 98(2) and (3) and 99 and paragraph 3 of Schedule 3.

The Treasury may make rules for securing that, in such circumstances and subject to such conditions as to proof of good health and other matters as may be specified in the rules, a retiring officer, that is to say, a person of such a class as may be so specified to whom any superannuation allowance or any annual compensation or retiring allowance is granted under this Act, otherwise than on retirement (from the civil service or other employment) on the ground of ill-health, shall be allowed to surrender, as from the beginning of the period in respect of which the allowance is paid, in return for the benefits of the rules such part, not exceeding one-third, of any superannuation allowance or any annual compensation or retiring allowance which the Treasury may grant to him under this Act, as may be specified in the rules, and for enabling the Treasury to grant either to the wife or husband, as the case may be, or to a dependant, of the retiring officer a pension of such value as, according to tables to be prepaid from time to time by the Government Actuary, is actuarially equivalent, at the said date, to the value of that part of the allowance which is Rules under this section may define classes of persons for the purposes of the section by reference to the age which they have attained at a specified date.

Any such pension as aforesaid for the benefit of a dependant (not being the spouse) of a retiring officer shall be payable in respect of the period, if any, for which the dependant survives the retiring officer, and any such pension as aforesaid for the benefit of the spouse of a retiring officer shall, according as the retiring officer may, in conformity with the rules under this section, elect, be payable either— and the rules may provide that a pension payable thereunder in respect of the periods mentioned in paragraph (b) of this subsection shall be paid at one rate in respect of the first of those periods and at a higher rate in respect of the second.

For the purposes of the references in subsections (1) and (2) of this section to the beginning of the period in respect of which an allowance is paid, any suspension of a pension under section 12 of this Act shall be disregarded.

If any person has, in accordance with rules under this section, surrendered part of a superannuation allowance, then, for the purpose of calculating the amount of any gratuity which may be granted to his personal representatives under section 4(2) of this Act, the sums paid or payable to him at the time of his death on account of such superannuation allowance shall be deemed to be the sums which would have been so paid or payable but for the surrender; and if any person has, in accordance with rules under this section, surrendered part of a superannuation or compensation allowance, then, for the purpose of determining whether any, and if so, what, amount may be paid to him under section 12 of this Act by way of such allowance in respect of any period during which, after retiring, he is employed in a public department, the profits of the office from which he retired shall be treated as reduced by the amount surrendered by him as aforesaid.

The Treasury may make rules for securing that, in such circumstances and subject to such conditions as to proof of good health and other matters as may be specified in the rules, a retired civil servant under seventy years of age who has married since his retirement shall be allowed to surrender, as from the date of his marriage, in return for the benefits of the rules, such part of any superannuation allowance or any annual compensation or retiring allowance granted or to be granted to him as may be specified in the rules and for enabling the Treasury to grant to his spouse a pension of such value as, according to tables prepared from time to time by the Government Actuary, is actuarially equivalent, at the said date, to the value of that part of the superannuation, compensation or retiring allowance which is surrendered: Provided that the part of any allowance surrendered by a person under this section, together with any part thereof surrendered under the last foregoing section, shall not exceed one-third of the allowance.

This section shall not apply where the retirement of the civil servant was on the ground of ill-health.

Subsections (2) and (4) of the last foregoing section, so far as they apply to surrenders made for the benefit of spouses and pensions granted to spouses, shall apply also to surrenders under this section and pensions granted by virtue thereof, but as if any references to the beginning of the period in respect of which an allowance granted to a retiring officer is paid and to the date of retirement were references to the date of the marriage.

A pension shall not be granted under this Part of this Act unless—

In this Part of this Act, the expression " the rate of the superannuation allowance of the deceased " means the annual rate of the superannuation allowance mentioned in subsection (1) of this section for which the deceased had become eligible (whether such an allowance at that or any other rate had actually been granted or not), or, as the case may be, for which he would or might have become eligible, any abatements falling to be made under regulations made under section 110(1) of the National Insurance Act 1965 being left out of account.

Subject to the provisions of subsection (1) of this section, a widow's pension may be paid in respect of the whole period from the death of the deceased to the death of the widow.

The annual rate of a widow's pension may amount to one-third of the rate of the superannuation allowance of the deceased or to £26 per annum, whichever is the higher.

A children's pension may be granted if, and be paid so long as and whenever, there are persons for whose benefit it can enure.

Subject to the provisions of this section and to the provisions of Schedule 5 to this Act, the persons for whose benefit a children's pension can enure are the children of the deceased or of any wife of his who are for the time being in their period of childhood and full-time education.

A children's pension cannot enure for the benefit of any person conceived after the deceased ceased to be a civil servant.

A children's pension cannot enure for the benefit of any person by reason that he is the illegitimate or adopted child of the deceased, if he was born, or, as the case may be, adopted, after the termination of the deceased's last marriage or after the deceased had ceased to be a civil servant: Provided that if the Treasury are satisfied that the child was before the termination of the deceased's last marriage, or, as the case may be, before the deceased had ceased to be a civil servant, wholly or mainly dependent on the deceased and that the deceased had already formed the intention of adopting the child, the Treasury may direct that the foregoing provision shall not apply to the child.

A children's pension cannot enure for the benefit of any person by reason that he is the child of a wife of the deceased, if he was born or became her "child after the termination of the marriage or after the deceased had ceased to be a civil servant: Provided that if the Treasury are satisfied that the child was before the termination of the marriage, or, as the case may be, before the deceased had ceased to be a civil servant, wholly or mainly dependent on the deceased, that the wife and the deceased had together formed the intention of adopting the child, and that, but for the deceased's death, the deceased would have adopted the child, the Treasury may direct that the foregoing provision shall not apply to the child.

A children's pension cannot enure for the benefit of any person by reason that— unless he was wholly or mainly dependent on the deceased at the time of his death.

A children's pension cannot enure for the benefit of a female person who at the time of the death of the deceased was married or was cohabiting with any person, and if, after the death of the deceased, a female person marries or cohabits with any person, she shall thereupon cease to be a person for whose benefit a children's pension can enure: Provided that where— the Treasury may, if they think fit, grant the pension, or, as the case may be, permit the pension to enure for her benefit, as from that date.

A children's pension cannot enure for the benefit of a person who is the subject of a nomination made by the deceased under Part IV of this Act which is still in force.

Only one children's pension shall be granted in respect of the service of any one person, but—

Where the deceased leaves no widow, and, if he leaves a widow, after her death, the annual rate of a children's pension—

Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing provisions of this section, where the deceased leaves a widow and no widow's pension is granted to her or, if one is granted to her, it ceases to be paid before her death, no children's pension shall be payable as respects any period comprised within the life-time of the widow or within the time in respect of which no widow's pension is payable, as the case may be, unless the Treasury specially direct that such a pension shall be so payable, but, if the Treasury do specially so direct, they may, if they think fit, further direct that subsection (2) of this section shall apply as respects any such period notwithstanding that the widow is alive.

At the time when this Part of this Act first applies to a person or within six months thereafter, he shall elect whether or not to make contributions under this section.

Where a person who has no wife when this Part of this Act first applies to him marries or first marries thereafter, he shall, unless he has previously elected under subsection (1) of this section to make contributions under this section, again elect, at the time of his marriage or within six months thereafter, whether or not to make such contributions.

Contributions by a person under this section— An election by a person under subsection (1) of this section shall be effective as from the date when this Part of this Act first applies to him and an election by a person under subsection (2) of this section shall be effective as from the date when he marries or first marries thereafter.

Contributions under this section are hereafter in this Part of this Act referred to as " periodical contributions ".

If— the whole of his periodical contributions may be returned to him.

In any other case where a person ceases to be a civil servant after making periodical contributions, there may be returned to him such of those contributions, if any, beginning with the last of them, as is necessary in order to secure that the period in respect of which such contributions are paid by him without being returned—

Where any contributions are returned under this section, they may be returned with compound interest at such rate or rates as the Treasury may from time to time determine.

Subject to the provisions of this section, where an additional allowance or a gratuity under section 4 of this Act becomes payable to or in respect of a person to whom this Part of this Act applies, a contribution under this section shall be made in respect of him, taking the form of a reduction in the amount of the allowance or gratuity.

A contribution shall not be made under this section where the civil servant has no wife when he ceases to be a civil servant and has had no wife throughout the period for which this Part of this Act applied to him, or where the number of relevant years, as defined in subsection (4) of this section, is nil.

Where subsection (2) of this section does not apply, the contribution shall be equal to one-eightieth of the average annual amount of the salary and emoluments of the civil servant's office during the last three years of his service, multiplied by the number of relevant years as defined in subsection (4) of this section.

In this section " the number of relevant years " means— reduced, in each case, by the number of years, if any, for which periodical contributions have been made by him and are not returnable.

Service after forty years of reckonable service shall be left out of account for the purposes of this section.

Any reduction effected or to be effected under this section in the amount of any additional allowance shall be left out of account for the purposes of section 4(2) of this Act and, accordingly, the question whether any and if so what gratuity may be granted under that subsection shall be determined as if no such reduction as aforesaid had been or had to be made.

Subject to the provisions of this section, this Part of this Act shall apply to all male persons who were civil servants on 14th July 1949 or who thereafter became or become civil servants.

This Part of this Act shall not apply to a person to whom, by virtue of any election made under any provision of section 10 of the Superannuation Act 1949, Part I of that Act did not at the commencement of this Act apply and was deemed never to have applied, unless he gives notice under subsection (5) of this section cancelling that election.

A male person who was a civil servant on 14th July 1949 and who had then no wife and did not marry or first marry after that date and before the commencement of this Act may, within the six months next following the date on which he marries or first marries after the said commencement, elect that this Part of this Act shall not apply and shall be deemed never to have applied to him: Provided that a person shall not make an election under this subsection if he has already elected to make periodical contributions.

Where— he may, before the expiration of six months from the date of the marriage referred to in paragraph (c) of this subsection, give a notice cancelling that election.

A woman civil servant who has a husband may, on proof to the satisfaction of the Treasury that her husband is wholly or mainly dependent on her, elect that this Part of this Act shall apply to her.

Where this Part of this Act applies to a woman by reason of an election under this section, all the provisions of this Part of this Act shall apply in relation to her as if references therein to a male person who is or was a civil servant included references to her, and as if any reference to the wife or widow of such a person included a reference to her husband or her widower: Provided that—

Subject to the provisions of this Part of this Act, a person who is a civil servant may, at any time before he ceases to be a civil servant, nominate another person who satisfies the conditions in that behalf specified in this Part of this Act as to relationship, dependence and otherwise, as a person to whom or for whose benefit a pension may be granted under this Part of this Act after the nominator's death, and, subject as aforesaid, the Treasury may, after the death of the nominator and if the nomination is still in force, grant a pension accordingly to or for the benefit of the person nominated.

Pensions under this Part of this Act shall be either—

In this Part of this Act, " nomination " means such a nomination as is referred to in subsection (1) of this section, and " nominate ", " nominator " and " nominee " shall be construed accordingly : Provided that, except where the context otherwise requires, " nominee" does not include a nominee under a nomination which has ceased to be in force.

A pension shall not be granted under this Part of this Act unless—

In this Part of this Act " the rate of the superannuation allowance of the nominator" means the annual rate of the superannuation allowance mentioned in subsection (1) of this section for which the nominator had become eligible (whether such an allowance at that or any other rate had actually been granted or not) or, as the case may be, for which he would or might have become eligible, any abatements falling to be made under regulations made under section 110(1) of the National Insurance Act 1965 being left out of account.

A life pension may be granted to a nominee who was nominated after the end of his period of childhood and full-time education.

A life pension may be paid in respect of the whole period from the death of the nominator until the death of the nominee.

The annual rate of a life pension may amount to one-third of the rate of the superannuation allowance of the nominator or to £26 per annum, whichever is the higher.

A pension of limited duration may be granted if, and be paid so long as and whenever, there are nominees for whose benefit it can enure, and, subject to the provisions of this section and to the provisions of Schedule 5 to this Act, the nominees for whose benefit such a pension can enure are nominees who are for the time being in their period of childhood and full-time education.

Only one pension of limited duration shall be granted in respect of the nominations of any one person but—

The annual rate of a pension of limited duration—

A pension of limited duration cannot enure for the benefit of a female nominee who at the time of the death of the nominator was married or was cohabiting with any person, and, if, after the death of the nominator, a female nominee marries or cohabits with any person, she shall cease to be a person for whose benefit a pension of limited duration can enure : Provided that where— the Treasury may, if they think fit, grant the pension, or, as the case may be, permit the pension to enure for her benefit, as from that date.

Where a person makes a nomination, contributions shall be made by him in accordance with this and the three next following sections in respect of that nomination, at rates ascertained by reference to tables to be prepared from time to time by the Government Actuary.

The said tables shall classify nominations according to the ages and sexes of the nominator and the nominee and according to whether or not the nominee is presumptively eligible for a life pension, and shall, in relation to each of the two kinds of contribution provided for by the three next following sections, fix a rate of contribution (expressed as a percentage) for each class of nomination; and those rates shall be fixed with a view to securing that, as nearly as may be, the value of the contributions payable in respect of each class of nomination is equivalent to half the burden of the pensions payable under this Part of this Act by reason of nominations of that class.

It shall be assumed, in preparing the said tables, that no nominator will ever make more than one nomination, and where two or more nominations (being nominations where the nominee is not presumptively eligible for a life pension) are in force at the same time, the contributions to be made in respect of the second nomination and the third nomination, if any, shall be at half the rate specified in the tables: Provided that where two or more nominations are made on the same day, the one with the youngest nominee shall be deemed for the purpose of this subsection to be made first, and so on.

In this Part of this Act " the appropriate percentage " means, in relation to the contributions of any kind payable in respect of a nomination of any class, the percentage or, as the case may be, half the percentage, which, in the tables prepared under this section which are in force at the date of the nomination, is expressed to be the rate for contributions of that kind in respect of nominations of that class.

When a person makes a nomination, he shall elect whether or not to make contributions under this section in respect of it.

Contributions by a person under this section— Provided that the Treasury may, if in all the circumstances they think fit so to do, direct, in relation to a nomination which becomes void before the nominator ceases to be a civil servant, that contributions shall not be payable in respect of the salary of the nominator after the date on which the nomination becomes void.

Contributions under this section are hereafter in this Part of this Act referred to as " periodical contributions ".

If a person who has made periodical contributions in respect of a nomination ceases to be a civil servant under such circumstances that he is not eligible for the grant of a superannuation allowance and will not become eligible therefor on attaining a particular age, the whole of his periodical contributions in respect of that nomination may be returned to him.

In any other case where a person ceases to be a civil servant after making periodical contributions in respect of a nomination, there may be returned to him such of those contributions, if any, beginning with the last of them, as is necessary in order to secure that the period in respect of which such contributions are paid by him without being returned—

Where any contributions are returned under this section, they may be returned with compound interest at such rate or rates as the Treasury may from time to time determine.

Subject to the provisions of this section, where an additional allowance or a gratuity under section 4 of this Act becomes payable to or in respect of a person who has made a nomination, a contribution under this section shall be made in respect of that nomination, taking the form of a reduction in the amount of the allowance or gratuity.

A contribution shall not be made under this section in respect of a nomination where the number of relevant years, as defined in subsection (4) of this section, is nil.

Where subsection (2) of this section does not apply, the contribution shall be equal to the appropriate percentage of the average annual amount of the salary and emoluments of the nominator's office during the last three years of his service, multiplied by the number of relevant years, as defined in subsection (4) of this section.

In this section " the number of relevant years " means the number of completed years of reckonable service which the nominator has on whichever of the following dates first occurs, that is to say— reduced, in each case, by the number of years, if any, for which periodical contributions have been made by him in respect of the nomination and are not returnable.

Service after forty years of reckonable service shall be left out of account for the purposes of this section.

Where a nomination becomes void before the nominator ceases to be a civil servant, otherwise than by revocation, the Treasury may, if in all the circumstances they think fit so to do, direct that this section shall have effect in relation to it as if references to the date when it became void were substituted for references to the date when the nominator gave notice to the Treasury of the avoiding thereof or, as the case may be, of the event by reason of which it became void.

Any reduction effected or to be effected under this section in the amount of any additional allowance shall be left out of account for the purposes of section 4(2) of this Act, and, accordingly, the question whether any and if so what gratuity may be granted under that subsection shall be determined as if no such reduction as aforesaid had been or had to be made.

A nominee must be the mother or father of the nominator, a sister, brother or child of the nominator, a child of a deceased sister or deceased brother of the nominator or a child of a deceased child of the nominator.

A nominee must at the date of the nomination, and at all times thereafter until the nominator ceases to be a civil servant, be wholly or mainly dependent on the nominator.

In their nominations, persons shall give preference to their children over their other dependants and accordingly a person who has a child who might be, but is not, a nominee of his, shall not have any nominee who is not a child of his.

Subject to the provisions of Schedule 5 to this Act—

Where— the number of nominees permissible under paragraph (b) of the last foregoing section shall, during any period during which any person who was presumptively eligible as aforesaid is alive and is still in his period of childhood and full-time education, be reduced by one for each such person who is alive and is still in his said period.

The references in the foregoing provisions of this section to a person presumptively eligible at any date for a pension under Part III of this Act in respect of the service of another person shall be construed as references to any person to whom or for whose benefit such a pension could have been granted if that other person had died on that date, it being assumed (notwithstanding any provision of this Act which has the effect of requiring a minimum period of service as a condition of the grant of a superannuation allowance) that that other person would have been eligible for a superannuation allowance if he had retired on that date from the civil service on a medical certificate.

A male person to whom Part III of this Act does not apply by reason of an election of his that it should not apply to him shall be in the same position under this section as he would have been in if he had not made that election, and the foregoing provisions of this section shall have effect in relation to him accordingly as if—

A purported nomination made in contravention of any of the provisions of the three last foregoing sections shall be void.

A nomination validly made may at any time be revoked by the nominator by a notice given by him and shall thereupon become void.

Where a nomination validly made becomes, owing to a change in circumstances, one which is not permissible under the three last foregoing sections, it shall thereupon become void.

A nomination shall become void on the death of the nominee.

Subject to the provisions of Schedule 5 to this Act, a nomination which is made during the nominee's period of childhood and full-time education shall become void upon the cessation of the nominee's period of childhood and full-time education.

A nomination which is otherwise valid shall not be invalid by reason only that the nominee has previously been nominated by the same person under a nomination which has become void.

Where a nomination validly made has become void at any time on the ground that a child of the nominator might then have been but was not a nominee of his and the nominator has died or retired without having made a new nomination, the Treasury may, if in the circumstances they think fit so to do, direct that the provisions of this Act shall have effect as if the nominator, immediately after the event by which the nomination was avoided, had nominated the person who was the nominee under the nomination (or, where more than one nomination was avoided by that event, such of those persons as may be specified in the direction) and had also nominated his child.

Where a person nominates another person who has been his nominee under a previous nomination which has become void, then, subject to the provisions of subsection (4) of this section, the Treasury may, if in the circumstances they think fit so to do, direct that the contributions payable in respect of the nominations shall be calculated as if the previous nomination had never become void: Provided that where the nominator has elected to make periodical contributions under the first nomination, he shall not, except so far as the Treasury may otherwise direct, make periodical contributions in respect of the period after the first nomination became void and before the new nomination is made, and the amount which he is to contribute by way of a reduction of his additional allowance or gratuity shall be calculated accordingly.

Where any contributions are returned under subsection (4) of this section, they may be returned with compound interest at such rate or rates as the Treasury may from time to time determine.

The Treasury may refuse to accept a nomination if they are not satisfied that the nominator was, having regard to his age, in good health at the time of the making of the nomination, and any nomination refused under this subsection shall be void.

A person who makes a nomination shall, when he makes the nomination and subsequently, make such declarations and provide such information as the Treasury may reasonably require for the purpose of enabling them properly to exercise the powers conferred on them by subsection (1) of this section and shall, if so required by the Treasury for that purpose, submit to be medically examined by a registered medical practitioner nominated or approved in that behalf by the Treasury.

Any reference in this Act to the salary and emoluments of an office is, as regards any period in respect of which any temporary abatement from the salary and emoluments of that office has been made pursuant to a general direction issued by the Treasury for the purpose of effecting economy in national expenditure, a reference to the salary and emoluments which would have been payable to the holder of the office but for that abatement.

For the purpose of calculating the amount of any gratuity payable under section 15 or 16 of this Act to or in respect of a person who has been employed in the civil service in an unestablished capacity or in part-time service, no account shall be taken of any temporary abatement of his pay made pursuant to any general direction issued by the Treasury for the purpose of effecting economy in national expenditure.

Subject to the provisions of subsection (4) of this section, a person shall be deemed for the purposes of Parts III and IV of this Act to be in his period of childhood and full-time education while either— Provided that a person shall not be deemed for the purposes of this section to satisfy the condition specified in paragraph (b) or the condition specified in paragraph (c) of this subsection unless there has up till then been no time since he attained the age of sixteen when he did not satisfy one or other of those conditions.

In subsection (1) of this section, " emoluments " means any salary, fees, wages, perquisites, or profits or gains whatsoever, and includes the value of free board, lodging or clothing, and, for the purposes of paragraph (c)(ii) of the said subsection (1), where a premium has been paid in respect of the training of a person, all emoluments at any time receivable by him, or payable by the employer in respect of him, shall be deemed to be receivable or payable by way of return of the premium, unless and except to the extent that the amount thereof exceeds in the aggregate the amount of the premium.

The Treasury may by order increase the sum of £13 in subsection (1)(c)(ii) of this section, but such an order— An order under this subsection may be varied or revoked by a subsequent order, but paragraph (b) of this subsection shall not apply to an order other than an order increasing, or further increasing, the said sum of £13.

As respects any period during which neither of the conditions specified in paragraphs (b) and (c) of subsection (1) of this section is satisfied in relation to a person, the Treasury may, if they think fit and are satisfied that that person's full-time education ought not to be regarded as completed, direct either—

Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing provisions of this section, the period of childhood and full-time education shall not, in the case of a person who is permanently incapacitated, be deemed for any of the purposes of Parts III and IV of this Act to continue after he attains the age of sixteen or his permanent incapacity becomes known, whichever is the later.

Any period, whether before or after the commencement of this Act, in respect of which payments authorised by subsection (1) of this section have been made in the case of any person employed in the civil service, whether before or after he became so employed, shall notwithstanding anything in this Act be disregarded in the application to him of any provisions of this Act except section 18 thereof.

The Treasury may make regulations for conferring on persons employed in the civil service who are subject to any scheme to which this section applies, or any class of such persons, benefits appearing to the Treasury to correspond as nearly as may be with the benefits conferred, on persons whose superannuation benefits are regulated under this Act, by sections 20, 21, 30 and 31 thereof.

The schemes to which this section applies are the superannuation schemes operated under the Federated Superannuation System for Universities, the Federated Superannuation Scheme for Nurses and Hospital Officers, and any other scheme approved by the Treasury for the purposes of this section.

The Treasury may make regulations under which service which would have been taken into account for the purposes of any provisions of this Act but for subsection (2) of the last foregoing section may be taken into account for the purpose of the provisions of this Act with respect to the minimum periods of service which qualify persons for the benefit of this Act.

Regulations under this section may make different provision in relation to different pension schemes and may include such supplemental and incidental provisions as appear to the Treasury expedient, including provisions for modifying the said subsection (2) or any other of the provisions of this Act.

Regulations under this section may apply to service before the making of the regulations, as well as to service for later periods.

The application of the provisions of this Act specified in subsection (2) of this section in relation to civil servants who have served on the permanent establishment of the Secretary of State in Council of India shall not be affected by anything in section 282(1) of the Government of India Act 1935 (which provides that part of any superannuation and other allowances or gratuities awarded to such persons shall be paid out of the revenues of the Federation of India), and the said subsection (1) shall operate in relation to them as if those provisions had not been made and the allowances and gratuities payable to or in respect of them had been computed and granted accordingly.

The provisions of this Act referred to in subsection (1) of this section are sections 5, 6, 7, 10, 13 (except subsection (4)), 15(1) to (5), 16,17,18, 20(1), 21(2), 22, 23,25,26,29,44 and 45(1), Parts III and IV, sections 83 to 88, 91, 94, 98(2) and (3) and 99 and paragraph 3 of Schedule 3.

Where on the death of any person any sum not exceeding £500 is due from a government department in respect of any civil pay, superannuation, or other allowance, annuity or gratuity, then, if the government department prescribed by order of the Treasury for the purpose of this section so direct, but subject to regulations (if any) made by the Treasury, proof of the title of the personal representatives of that person may be dispensed with, and the said sum may be paid or distributed to or among the persons appearing to the department to be beneficially entitled to the personal or moveable estate of that person, or to or among any one or more of those persons or, in case of the illegitimacy of that person or his children, to or among such persons as the department think fit, and the department shall be discharged from all liability in respect of any such payment or distribution.

Subsection (1) of this section shall apply to any sum not exceeding £500 payable to the personal representatives of a deceased person under this Act as it applies to such a sum due from a government department to a person who has died, and accordingly the sum may either be paid to the personal representatives (without proof of title) or be paid or distributed among the persons appearing to the Treasury to be beneficially entitled to the estate of the deceased, or among such other persons as are described in that subsection.

Nothing in this section shall affect section 8(1) of the Finance Act 1894 (application to estate duty of probate duty law and practice as regards payment of sums under £100 without requiring representation).

Any power conferred by this Act to make rules, or orders shall be exercisable by statutory instrument.

Any statutory instrument containing rules or an order made under this Act, shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

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There shall be paid out of the Consolidated Fund—

There shall be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament—

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In this Act “civil service” means the civil service of the State.

In this Act “civil servant” means a person serving in an established capacity in the permanent civil service, and references in this Act to persons ceasing to be civil servants, to persons retiring from being civil servants and to retired civil servants shall be construed accordingly. Except where the context otherwise requires, any reference in this Act to a person ceasing to be a civil servant includes a reference to the death of a person who dies while he is a civil servant.

For the purposes of this Act no person shall be deemed to have served in the permanent civil service unless he holds his appointment directly from the Crown or has been admitted into the civil service with a certificate from the Civil Service Commissioners.

For the purposes of pensions and other superannuation benefits—

The Minister for the Civil Service may by order add any employment to those listed in the said Schedule, being employment by a body or in an institution specified in the order.

The references in section 12 of this Act to a public department, the references in section 33 of this Act to a government service, and the references in section 93 of this Act to a government department, shall include references to any of the bodies or institutions listed in the said Schedule or, as the case may be, to the service provided by any of those bodies or institutions.

Section 46(1)(b) of this Act shall, notwithstanding subsection (3)(d) of that section, include employment of any of the kinds listed in the said Schedule.

References in this section to employment of the kinds listed in the said Schedule are references, in the case of any institution specified in that Schedule, to employment by the trustees or other authority responsible for the institution, and, in other cases, references to employment by the body specified in the Schedule.

Subsections (4) to (8) of this section shall be deemed always to have had effect, and any order of the Minister for the Civil Service under this section may be expressed to have effect retrospectively.

In this Act, except so far as is otherwise expressly provided or the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say—

Any reference in this Act to an adopted child of a person shall be construed as a reference to a child adopted by him (whether alone or jointly with any other person) in pursuance of an adoption order made under the Adoption of Children Act 1926, the Adoption Act 1950, the Adoption Act 1958, or the Adoption of Children (Scotland) Act 1930, or any corresponding enactment of the Parliament of Northern Ireland, or adopted by him (whether alone or jointly with any other person) in accordance with the law of the place where he was domiciled at the time of the adoption, and references to a person by whom another person has been adopted shall be construed accordingly.

In this Act " incapacitated " means, in relation to a person, incapable by reason of old age or some specific bodily or mental disability of earning his own living, and a person who is in any event too young to earn his own living shall be treated as incapacitated for the purposes of this Act if it appears that, by reason of any specific bodily or mental disability, he will be incapable of earning his own living when he attains the age at which he would otherwise be capable of doing so.

Any reference in this Act to any enactment shall, except so far as the context otherwise requires, be construed as a reference to that enactment as amended or extended by or under any other enactment.

This Act shall not apply to any existing Irish officers.

In this section " existing Irish officers " has the same meaning as in the Government of Ireland Act 1920.

The savings and transitional provisions contained in Schedule 10 to this Act shall have effect.

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Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Treasury may grant to any civil servant who— a superannuation allowance computed by multiplying one-eightieth of the average annual amount of the salary and emoluments of his office during the last three years of his service by forty or by the number of completed years of his service as a civil servant, whichever is the less.

This section shall not apply in relation to any person for whom provision is otherwise made by Act of Parliament or who is specially excepted by the authority of Parliament.

Subject to the provisions of this Act, where a civil servant dies, after having served as a civil servant for not less than five years, while still employed in the civil service, the Treasury may grant to his personal representatives a gratuity of whichever of the two following amounts is the greater, that is to say—

Subject to the provisions of this Act, where a civil servant having become eligible for the grant of a superannuation allowance dies after he has retired from the civil service, and the sums paid or payable to him at the time of his death on account of such allowance, together with the sum received by him by way of additional allowance, are less than the average annual amount of the salary and emoluments of his office during the last three years of his service, the Treasury may grant to his personal representatives a gratuity equal to the deficiency.

Where— the same superannuation allowance and additional allowance, if any, may be granted to him as might have been granted to him if his reckonable service had been twenty years.

In the case of a person whose reckonable service would, if he had continued to serve in the employment in which he was when he was last a civil servant until five years after the retiring age, have been a period shorter than twenty years, subsection (1) of this section shall have effect as if for the last reference therein to twenty years there were substituted a reference to that shorter period: Provided that if his retirement was immediately preceded by a period no part of which counted towards reckonable service and it is recognised by the Treasury as a period throughout which he was on sick leave, this subsection shall only apply if the said period of reckonable service (that is, assuming that the person had continued to serve until five years after the retiring age) plus that period of sick leave together amount to a period shorter than twenty years, and then subsection (1) of this section shall have effect as if for such reference therein to twenty years there were substituted a reference to that shorter period.

This section applies only— and does not affect cases falling within, or pensions under the said Part III or the said Part IV falling to be computed by reference to the superannuation allowance grantable under, any provision (whether contained in this or any other Act) which provides for the grant, in other circumstances, of the same superannuation allowance or additional allowance as might be granted on retirement from the civil service on such a certificate.

Where a civil servant continues to serve as such after both the two following conditions are satisfied in relation to him, that is to say— any superannuation allowance or additional allowance which may be granted to him shall be calculated in accordance with the following provisions of this section.

The said allowances shall be computed— whichever is the higher.

For each completed year, not exceeding five, of the reckonable service of the civil servant after the said two conditions were satisfied in relation to him the superannuation allowance may be increased by one-eightieth of the higher of the amounts mentioned in subsection (2) of this section and the additional allowance, if any, may be increased by three-eightieths of the higher of those amounts: Provided that section 24 of this Act shall not apply to the computation, for the purposes of this subsection, of the reckonable service of a person after the said two conditions are satisfied in relation to him.

This section, so far as it applies to additional allowances, applies also for the purposes of section 4(1) of this Act.

If the employment of a civil servant who has attained the age of fifty years is terminated at his request before the retiring age, the same superannuation allowance and additional allowance, if any, may be granted to him as might have been granted to him if he had retired on a medical certificate: Provided that, unless the Treasury otherwise determine on compassionate grounds, no such allowance shall be granted to a person by virtue of this subsection before he attains the age which would have been the retiring age for him if he had continued in the employment in which he was when he was last a civil servant and if in continuing in that employment he had been employed in the United Kingdom.

Where a person who would have been eligible for the grant of a superannuation allowance but for the operation of the proviso to the foregoing subsection dies without any such allowance being granted to him, the Treasury may grant to his personal representatives such gratuity, if any, as might have been granted to them if he had died on the last day on which he was employed as a civil servant.

Where a civil servant is removed from his office on the ground of his inability to discharge efficiently the duties of his office, and a superannuation allowance cannot lawfully be granted to him, and the Treasury think that the special circumstances of the case justify the grant to him of a retiring allowance, they may grant to him such retiring allowance as they think just and proper, but in no case exceeding the amount for which his length of service would qualify him under section 1 of this Act.

A person to whom an allowance is granted under subsection (1) of this section may also be granted the same additional allowance, if any, as might have been granted to him if he had retired on a medical certificate.

Before granting any allowance under this section to any civil servant the Treasury shall consider any representations which he may have submitted to them.

A minute of the Treasury granting an allowance or allowances under this section to a civil servant shall set forth the amount of each allowance granted to him, and the reasons for granting it, and shall be laid before Parliament within fourteen days after being made.

The said allowances shall be computed— whichever is the higher.

For each completed year, not exceeding five, of continuous service in an unestablished capacity the superannuation allowance may be increased by one-eightieth of the higher of the amounts mentioned in subsection (2) of this section and the additional allowance, if any, may be increased by three-eightieths of the higher of those amounts.

If a person ceases to be a civil -servant and immediately re-enters the civil service to serve therein in an unestablished capacity, and when he ceases to be a civil servant,— the said odd part of a year shall be taken into account for the purposes of this section as if it were part of the service in an unestablished capacity.

Notwithstanding anything in section 6(3) of this Act, no year shall be taken into account thereunder which would make the number of years taken into account under that and subsection (3) of this section exceed five in all.

The enactments relating to the computation of reckonable service, other than section 24 of this Act, shall apply to the computation of service for the purposes of the proviso to subsection (1) of this section, and of subsection (3) of this section, as if it were established service.

If a person employed in an unestablished capacity dies while still in his employment after having served continuously therein for not less than five years the Treasury may grant a gratuity to his personal representatives.

If a person employed as aforesaid retires or is removed from his employment after having served continuously therein for not less than five years, the Treasury may, on the recommendation of the head officer of the department, grant a gratuity to him.

The rate at which a gratuity may be granted under either of the foregoing subsections shall be— Provided that the total amount of the gratuity shall not exceed the amount of one year's pay.

If a civil servant who, before he was a civil servant, was employed in an unestablished capacity dies without having completed sufficient service for it to be possible that a gratuity should be paid in respect of him, his employment as a civil servant may be treated for the purposes of this section as if it were employment in an unestablished capacity.

Service taken into account for the purposes of section 13 of this Act shall not also be taken into account for the purposes of this section.

Where a married woman who before her marriage was employed as a civil servant has in consequence of her marriage been transferred to employment in an unestablished capacity and no gratuity was paid to her on her marriage in respect of her service as a civil servant, then, for the purposes of this section, her said service shall be treated as if it were service in an unestablished capacity.

The part-time service to which this section applies is part-time service in the civil service where the person employed gives personal service of at least eighteen hours a week and the remuneration is defrayed entirely out of moneys provided by Parliament or the Post Office Fund.

Subject to the provisions of this subsection, section 15(1) to (4) of this Act, and section 21(2) thereof, shall apply in relation to persons who die while employed in, or retire or are removed from, part-time service to which this section applies, or who, having become civil servants after having been employed in such part-time service as aforesaid, die while still civil servants, as if references in those subsections to employment or service in an unestablished capacity were references to employment or service in such part-time service as aforesaid: Provided that—

Section 15(1) and (2) of this Act and those subsections, as applied by section 16(2) of this Act, shall have effect as if the references in those subsections to continuous service in an unestablished capacity or, as the case may be, in part-time service to which the said section 16 applies included references to service which is partly the one and partly the other (in this section called " mixed service ").

For the purposes of section 15(3) of this Act as it applies in relation to mixed service—

Subject to subsections (4) and (5) of this section, where section 18(5) of this Act applies in relation to mixed service—

Where the effect of this subsection would be to afford a larger gratuity to any person, the foregoing provisions of this section shall not apply to him, but for the purposes of sections 15, 16(2) and 18(5) of this Act the part of the mixed service which is service in an unestablished capacity shall be treated as if it were part-time service to which the said section 16 applies.

Where the effect of this subsection would be to afford a larger gratuity to any person whose mixed service began before 29th April 1965, the provisions contained in Schedule 2 to this Act, and not the foregoing provisions of this section, shall apply to him.

The reference in subsection (1) of this section to the widow of the person who is injured or contracts the disease shall, where that person is a female, be deemed to be a reference to her widowed husband if he is wholly or mainly dependent on her at the time of her death.

Where the person who is injured or contracts the disease is a civil servant, any allowance granted under this section to him shall not, together with any superannuation allowance, and the annuity value of any additional allowance, for which he is otherwise eligible, exceed five-sixths of the annual salary and emoluments of his office. In this subsection " annuity value " means, in relation to an additional allowance for which a person is eligible, the value thereof computed in accordance with the Tables for immediate life annuities framed under Part II of the Government Annuities Act 1929 which are in force when he ceases to be a civil servant. Any reduction effected or to be effected in the amount of any additional allowance by way of contribution under Part III or Part IV of this Act shall be left out of account for the purposes of this subsection and, accordingly, the annuity value of any additional allowance shall be determined as if no such reduction as aforesaid had been or had to be made.

Where the person who is injured or contracts the disease is a civil servant whose service, as computed for the purposes of section 4 of this Act, is less than five years and he dies as the direct result of the injury or disease, he shall be treated for the purposes of that section as if his service had amounted to five years.

Where the person who is injured or contracts the disease is a person employed in an unestablished capacity whose continuous service therein, as computed for the purposes of section 15 of this Act, is less than five years, or is a person in part-time service to which section 16 of this Act applies whose continuous service of that kind as so computed is less than five years, and he dies as the direct result of the injury or disease, his continuous service shall be treated for the purposes of the said section 15 as amounting to five years.

Where a civil servant recruited as such in the United Kingdom is employed outside the United Kingdom for the purposes of Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and suffers an aggravation of a disease from which he is already suffering, being an aggravation to which he is exposed by the nature of his duty outside the United Kingdom and which is not wholly or mainly due to his own serious and culpable negligence or misconduct, this section shall apply in relation to him as if, when he sustained the aggravation, he had contracted such a disease as is mentioned in subsection (1)(b) thereof.

A warrant under this section may be revoked or varied by a subsequent warrant of the Treasury thereunder.

If a warrant under section 18 of this Act authorises the Treasury to take into account, as against any sums otherwise payable under the warrant, any damages which are recovered or recoverable by or on behalf of the recipient of the payments under that section in respect of the injury, disease or death in consequence of which the payments are made, and the Treasury make any payments without taking such damages into account, then if and when the Treasury are satisfied that there are any damages to be so taken into account they shall have the right to recover from the recipient—

So far as any amount recoverable under this section represents a payment made by the Treasury from which income tax has been deducted before payment, the proper allowance shall be made in respect of the amount so deducted, and in this section " the net amount of the damages" means the amount of the damages after deducting any tax payable in the United Kingdom or elsewhere to which the damages are subject.

No proceeding shall be brought to recover any amount under this section—

A certificate issued by the Treasury and stating the date on which the final determination of any amount of damages first came to the knowledge of the Treasury shall be admissible in any proceedings as sufficient evidence of that date.

The provisions of this section are without prejudice to any right of the Treasury under any such warrant to take damages into account by withholding or reducing any further sums otherwise payable to the recipient of the payment.

If, at the time when any person became or becomes a civil servant, he was or is employed in an unestablished capacity, then, subject to subsections (2) and (3) of this section, his continuous service in such a capacity shall— be reckoned for the purposes of this Act as service in the capacity of a civil servant.

For the purpose of computing, in the case of any person, the service to be reckoned under subsection (1) of this section, no account shall be taken of any period for which that person has served before attaining the age of eighteen years.

The provisions of Schedule 3 to this Act shall have effect in relation to persons whose continuous service in employment in an unestablished capacity began before 27th June 1935 and who subsequently became or become civil servants.

The Treasury may direct—

Paragraphs (a) and (b) of the foregoing subsection shall apply for the purposes of section 15 of this Act as they apply for the purposes of section 20(1) thereof.

Where either of the following conditions is satisfied in relation to a person who on 14th July 1949 or at any time thereafter was or is a civil servant, that is to say— then, subject to the following subsection, his continuous service in such part-time service as aforesaid immediately before he became a civil servant or, as the case may be, immediately before he began to serve in an unestablished capacity, except so much thereof as took place before he attained the age of eighteen years, shall, as to one-half or, if and so far as that service took place before 14th July 1949, one-quarter of the period thereof, be reckoned for all the purposes of this Act as service as a civil servant.

The Treasury may direct—

If with respect to any person becoming a civil servant after attaining the age of forty years the Treasury have directed that he shall be subject to the provisions of this subsection, then, for the purposes of this Act, the length of his service shall be treated as eight-fifths of the actual length thereof.

If with respect to any person becoming a civil servant between the ages of thirty and forty years the Treasury have directed that he shall be subject to the provisions of subsection (1) of this section, those provisions shall apply in his case accordingly, but his service before attaining the age of forty years shall be disregarded for the purposes of this Act: Provided that, notwithstanding the direction, this subsection shall not have effect so as to prevent or reduce any award under this Act which might have been made if the direction had not been given.

No direction shall be given under this section in the case of any person after the expiration of six months from the date on which he became a civil servant.

Any direction under this section shall be laid before Parliament forthwith after being given.

This section shall apply in relation to such countries and places (being countries or places outside the United Kingdom) as the Treasury may by order specify (in this section referred to as " countries or places to which this section applies ").

Subject to the provisions of this section, in computing the amount of any superannuation allowance, additional allowance or gratuity, each year of actual service in a country or place to which this section for the time being applies, either as a civil servant or in an unestablished capacity, shall be reckoned as service as a civil servant or service in an unestablished capacity, as the case may be, for one and a half years and so proportionately as regards parts of a year: Provided that this subsection shall not apply to any service which would, apart from this subsection, fall to be reckoned for any of the purposes aforesaid at a rate greater than one and a half years for each year of actual service.

Subject to the provisions of this section, for each completed year of actual service as a civil servant in countries or places to which this section for the time being applies, the age on retirement at which without a medical certificate a superannuation allowance or additional allowance may be granted apart from the provisions of sections 7 and 10 of this Act shall be reduced by three months, so, however, that the said age shall not in any case be reduced below fifty-five years. Service in an unestablished capacity in countries or places to which this section for the time being applies which could be taken into account in computing the amount of any superannuation allowance shall be taken into account under this subsection as if it were service as a civil servant.

Nothing in this section shall, without the consent of the Treasury, apply to a person who was residing in a country or place to which this section for the time being applies when he first entered the civil service.

Nothing in this section shall affect the minimum period which it is requisite that a person should serve in order that a superannuation allowance, additional allowance or gratuity may become payable to or in respect of him.

Any order made under the Superannuation Act 1876 declaring a country or place to be an unhealthy place shall be deemed for the purposes of this section to be an order under subsection (1) of this section specifying that country or place for the purposes of this section.

Any order under this section may be revoked or varied by a subsequent order of the Treasury.

An order under this section may, if in the special circumstances of the case it appears proper to the Treasury so to frame the order, be so framed as to apply this section to a country or place as from a date before that of the making of the order, and where an order is so framed references in this section to a country or place to which this section for the time being applies shall be construed accordingly.

This section— Provided that, for the purpose of the computation of service required to be made by section 13 of this Act, this section shall have effect and be deemed always to have had effect in relation to every person to whom that section applies, whether or not he has served as a civil servant after 13th July 1949.

This section applies to employment in prisons and other institutions to which the Prison Act 1952 or the Prisons (Scotland) Act 1952 applies, whether with or without modifications, being employment of any such classes as the Secretary of State may with the approval of the Treasury by order prescribe.

Fifty-five years shall be substituted for sixty years as the age on retirement at which without a medical certificate a superannuation allowance or additional allowance may be granted apart from the provisions of sections 7 and 10 of this Act to a civil servant who retires from employment to which this section applies.

After twenty years of actual service, whether as a civil servant or in an unestablished capacity, in employment to which this section applies, each year of actual service in such employment shall be reckoned for the purpose of computing the amount of any superannuation allowance, additional allowance or gratuity as two years of service as a civil servant or, as the case may be, of service in an unestablished capacity, and so proportionately as regards parts of a year. The foregoing provision shall not be taken as affecting the reckoning of service in any year earlier than the twenty-first of the years of actual service mentioned in that provision, being service of the kind specified in that provision as extended by section 27(1) of this Act.

Any order or other instrument made or issued under the Superannuation (Prison Officers) Act 1919 prescribing an employment for the purposes of that Act shall be deemed for the purposes of this section to be an order under subsection (1) thereof prescribing that employment for the purposes of this section. This subsection applies to orders and instruments made or issued under the said Act in relation to employment in Broad-moor institutions or criminal lunatic asylums, or made or issued under section 10 of the Superannuation Act 1935, in relation to employment in institutions maintained by the Board of Control under sections 25 and 35 of the Mental Deficiency Act 1913, and the provisions of subsection (1) of this section shall be extended accordingly.

Any order under this section may be revoked or varied by a subsequent order of the Secretary of State made with the approval of the Treasury.

This section shall have effect in relation to any person who has served in an employment to which this section applies at any time after 13th July 1949 and, in relation to any such person, shall be deemed always to have had effect: Provided that, for the purpose of the computation of service required to be made by section 13 of this Act, this section shall have effect and be deemed always to have had effect in relation to every person to whom that section applies, whether or not he has served as a civil servant after 13th July 1949.

The Treasury may order that for the purpose of section 26(3) of this Act there shall be treated as employment to which that section applies employment of any kind specified in the order, being employment otherwise than in the civil service—

Where by virtue of an order under this section any such employment as is mentioned in subsection (1)(b) of this section is treated as employment to which the said section 26 applies, the said section 26(3) shall have effect subject to such modifications, if any, as may be specified in the order.

Except as otherwise provided by an order under this section, any such order shall have effect as respects employment of the kind specified in the order in periods before or after the making of the order.

Any order under this section may be varied or revoked by a subsequent order.

Where a person who was a civil servant on 14th July 1949 had, before he became a civil servant, served in whole-time service in the armed forces of the Crown, the merchant navy or the mercantile marine at any time between 4th August 1914 and 31st August 1921, then, if and so far as that service took place after the date on which he was declared successful in a competitive examination for persons desiring to become civil servants or, as the case may be, the date on which he was nominated by the head officer of a government department for appointment to the civil service, it shall be reckoned for the purposes of this Act as if it had been service as a civil servant.

For the purposes of this section a person who became a civil servant more than three months after the date on which he was declared or nominated as mentioned in the foregoing subsection shall be deemed to have served in whole-time service in the armed forces of the Crown, the merchant navy or the mercantile marine during the whole of the period between that date and the date on which he became a civil servant, unless the contrary appears.

Where a person entered the civil service during the period beginning with 3rd September 1939 and ending with 30th June 1950 after whole-time service during that period in the armed forces of the Crown, in the merchant navy or the mercantile marine, or in any of the women's services specified in Schedule 4 to this Act, then, for the purposes of sections 15, 20 and 21 of this Act, any such whole-time service as aforesaid served by that person after he had attained the age at which, in the opinion of the Treasury, he might but for war circumstances have been appointed to the civil service in the class in which he was in fact appointed shall, subject to any regulations made under this section, be treated as if it had been continuous service in an unestablished capacity ending immediately before the date on which the said person entered the civil service.

Where a person entered the civil service after 30th June 1950 through recruitment by a competition determined by the Treasury to be a reconstruction competition and after whole-time service at any time since 2nd September 1939 in any of the armed forces of the Crown, in the merchant navy or the mercantile marine, or in any of the women's services specified in Schedule 4 to this Act, then, for the purposes of sections 15, 20, 21 and 22 of this Act, any such whole-time service as aforesaid served by that person after he had attained the age at which, in the opinion of the Treasury, he might but for war circumstances have been appointed to the civil service in the class in which he was in fact appointed shall, subject to any regulations made under this section, be treated as if it had been continuous service in an unestablished capacity.

The Treasury may make regulations— so however that the regulations shall not prevent any service from counting for the purposes of so much of section 15 of this Act as requires a minimum period of service as a condition for the grant of a gratuity.

For the purpose of adapting this Act to the circumstances of persons whose employment in the civil service (in this subsection referred to as " usual employment") was interrupted or terminated by war circumstances, so as to authorise the making of awards which, or the amount of which, would not be authorised under this Act apart from this section, the Treasury may make regulations providing, in the case of persons of any class to which the regulations apply,—

In this section " war period " means the period beginning with 3rd September 1939 and ending with 31st December 1949.

The Treasury may make rules providing that where a person immediately before he entered upon compulsory national service was a civil servant or serving in an unestablished capacity, the period of his compulsory national service and such further period, if any, after the termination thereof as may be specified in the rules shall be treated for the purposes of this Act as service as a civil servant or in an unestablished capacity, as the case may be.

The foregoing subsection shall, subject to the following provisions of this section, apply in relation to persons who enter upon service of a description specified in Schedule 1 to the Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Act 1951 (hereinafter referred to as " the Act of 1951 ") as it applies in relation to persons who entered upon compulsory national service.

Where a person who had been successful in a competitive examination for persons desiring to obtain posts in the civil service entered upon compulsory national service before becoming a civil servant, and that examination, or any subsequent examination for persons desiring to obtain similar posts held before 29th April 1965, was one in which persons below the age of eighteen years were allowed to compete, then, where rules made under this section so provide, so much of the period of his compulsory national service as fell after the date on which the Civil Service Commissioners issued their certificate of qualification in relation to him, and such further period, if any, after the termination of his compulsory national service as may be specified in the rules, shall be treated for the purposes of this Act as service as a civil servant.

Where a person who has been successful in a competitive examination for persons desiring to obtain posts in the civil service or who has been nominated by a government department with the approval of the Treasury for appointment to such a post enters upon service of a description specified in Schedule 1 to the Act of 1951 other than compulsory national service, then, where rules made under this section so provide, so much of the period of such service of his as falls after the date on which the Civil Service Commissioners issue their certificate of qualification in relation to him and such further period, if any, after the termination of that period as may be specified in the rules shall be treated for the purposes of this Act as service as a civil servant.

Rules made under this section may make provision for securing that, where a person undertakes service of a description specified in Schedule 1 to the Act of 1951 other than compulsory national service—

Rules made under this section may be so framed as to apply, and to be deemed always to have applied— and rules so made in relation to persons in relation to whom the said subsection (1) applies by virtue of subsection (2) of this section, or in relation to any person referred to in subsection (4) of this section, may be framed so as to have effect as from 15th July 1950.

Rules made under this section may contain such consequential and incidental provisions as appear to the Treasury to be necessary or expedient, including provisions requiring the giving of information and the production of documents, and provisions repealing, revoking, varying or applying any statutory provision relating to the subject-matter of the rules; and any such rules may make different provision for different cases or classes of In this subsection "statutory provision" means a provision, whether of a general or special nature, contained in or in any document made or issued under any Act, whether of a general or special nature.

In this section " compulsory national service " means service in any of the armed forces of the Crown undertaken by virtue of an enlistment notice or a training notice served under the National Service Acts 1939 to 1947 or Part I of the National Service Act 1948 or work or training in pursuance of an order of a tribunal under section 5 of the National Service (Armed Forces) Act 1939 or work or training in pursuance of an order made or direction given under the said Part I as respects a conditionally registered conscientious objector.

Where, in connection with the provision of a new government service or the extension of an existing government service, persons have been taken into the civil service after having been employed by a body or organisation— and in the opinion of the Treasury their employment by that body or organisation was of the same nature and for the same purpose as their employment in the civil service, the Treasury may by rules provide for service in employment by that body or organisation being reckoned, in such manner and to such extent as may be specified in the rules, as service in the civil service for the purposes of this Act and modify in other respects the provisions of this Act as they apply in relation to those persons.

Rules under this section may, in relation to persons who had acquired or were in the course of acquiring pension rights in respect of their employment by any such body or organisation, in particular provide for making it a condition of obtaining benefits under this Act— In this subsection " pension right " includes all forms of right to or eligibility for present or future payments of a pension, lump sum or gratuity.

This section shall not apply in relation to employment of any of the kinds specified in section 35(1) or 36(1) of this Act, but, subject to that, this section shall apply whatever the time at which the persons concerned were taken into the civil service.

For the purpose of determining whether a civil servant has served for the minimum period prescribed under this Act for the payment of a superannuation allowance or additional allowance, or a gratuity to his personal representatives on his death, any service before he became a civil servant which is— shall, subject to subsection (2) of this section, be treated as if it were service as a civil servant.

Any service which under section 12(2) of the Teachers (Superannuation) Act 1925 or under the Scottish Regulations would, by reason of the repayment of contributions, be excluded in reckoning periods of contributory or recognised service for the purposes of Part II of the said Act of 1925 or in reckoning periods of first class service under the Scottish Regulations, as the case may be, shall be disregarded for the purposes of subsection (1) of this section.

Rules made by the Treasury under this subsection may make provision with respect to the pensions payable to and in respect of the following persons, namely— and any such rules may provide for service in any such employment as aforesaid being reckoned, in such manner and to such extent as may be specified in the rules, as service to the State for the purposes of this Act.

Rules made under the foregoing subsection may, in relation to persons of the class specified in paragraph (a) of that subsection who— include provisions requiring those persons to pay into the Exchequer amounts equal to the whole or any part of the contributions so returned to them as a condition of their service as officers or servants of a local authority as aforesaid being reckoned, to the extent specified in the rules, as service to the State for the purposes of this Act.

Rules made by the Treasury under this subsection may make provision to secure that benefits corresponding as nearly as may be to the benefits conferred under subsection (1) of this section on or in respect of the persons specified in paragraph (d) of that subsection are conferred on or in respect of persons who, having been employed by the aforesaid Meteorological Committee, were at any time before 28th May 1948 employed in the civil service in the aforesaid Meteorological Office and became, and thereafter remained, subject to a superannuation scheme to which section 89 of this Act applies.

Section 32(7) shall apply in relation to rules made under any provision of this section as it applies in relation to rules made under that section.

In this section—

Rules made by the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance, with the consent of the Treasury, may make provision with respect to the pensions payable to and in respect of persons who, having been employed full-time— became civil servants before such date as may be specified in the rules.

Any such rules may include provisions—

Where the persons having pension rights under any pension scheme or interested in any pension fund include both such persons as are mentioned in subsection (1) of this section and other persons in respect of whom the following conditions are fulfilled, that is to say— rules made under this section may apply in relation to pensions payable to and in respect of those other persons as if they were persons such as are mentioned in the said subsection (1), and may provide for payment out of moneys provided by Parliament in respect of the pension rights of those other persons, so, however, that nothing in this subsection shall be construed as requiring identical provision to be made in relation to persons who fall, and persons who do not fall, within the said subsection (1).

The provisions of this section shall have effect in relation to any persons notwithstanding that provision could have been, or could be, made in relation to those persons under any provision of the Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1948, other than section 3 thereof, or could be made in relation to them under section 32 or 35 of this Act, and nothing in any provision of the said Act of 1948 or of the said section 32 or 35 shall be construed as limiting the powers exercisable under this section.

Section 32(7) of this Act shall apply in relation to rules made under this section as it applies in relation to rules made under that section, but with the substitution for the reference to the Treasury of a reference to the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance.

In this section—

Where at some time before 30th September 1934 a person entered the civil service, after having served in a temporary capacity with the Imperial War Graves Commission, his service in a temporary capacity with that Commission before that time, but not before 1st January 1919, may, subject to the provisions of this section, be reckoned for the purposes of this Act as employment in an unestablished capacity.

Where the said Commission paid a gratuity to a person to whom the foregoing subsection applies in respect of his service with the Commission, it shall be a condition of the making of any payment under this Act in respect of that person's service, so far as the amount of that payment is dependent on the provisions of that subsection, that there has been paid to the Exchequer a sum equal to the amount of the said gratuity.

The Treasury may, if they think fit, deduct any amount payable to them under the last foregoing subsection from any allowance or gratuity payable in respect of the person in question under section 3 or 4 of this Act, or any other lump sum payment so payable under this Act, and, where they do so, the person entitled to the lump sum payment shall not be entitled to require any other person to make any contribution towards the deduction borne by him.

The Minister for the Civil Service may make rules with respect to the superannuation benefits payable to or in respect of persons who have been employed in more than one public office.

Rules under this section may in particular in relation to such persons— and rules under this section may include such supplemental and incidental provisions as appear to the Minister for the Civil Service to be expedient.

Rules under this section may provide either for separate pensions under the respective enactments relating to the different employments or for a single pension under the enactments relating to the later or latest employment (or by virtue of subsection (2)(b) of this section under the civil service scheme or employ partly the one method and partly the other: Provided that if the rules provide for separate pensions in relation to different public offices the rules shall not modify the civil service scheme or any other enactments so as to include as reckonable service in computing one of the separate pensions service in a public office in respect of which another of those separate pensions is payable.

Rules under this section may be so framed as to apply to persons ceasing to be employed in one public office and becoming employed in another notwithstanding that the cessation of the first employment or the commencement of the second employment was before the date of the making of the rules: Provided that no rules shall be framed so as to apply when the cessation of the first employment took place before the making of the rules unless the rules are only to apply with the consent of the person ceasing to be employed, or that person is by the rules given an opportunity to elect that they shall not apply to him.

If the application of the rules in force under this section would put a particular individual in a position less advantageous than that in which he would have been if the rules did not apply in relation to him, they shall not be so applied. (5A) References in this section to enactments shall be construed as including references to the civil service scheme, and in this section ”the civil service scheme’ means the principal civil service pension scheme within the meaning of section 2 of the Superannuation Act 1972 and for the time being in force.

In this section “pension”, in relation to any person, means a pension of any kind whatsoever payable to or in respect of him, and includes a lump sum or gratuity so payable.

In the last foregoing section references to employment in a public office shall be construed as references to employment of the following kinds, and “public office” shall be construed accordingly,—

The last foregoing section and this section shall have effect subject to the transitional provisions in paragraphs 10 and 11 of Schedule 10 to this Act.

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Rules in force under the last foregoing section shall not apply in relation to any person if the only public offices in which he has been employed have been employments in a capacity remunerated out of moneys provided by the Parliament of Northern Ireland or the Consolidated Fund of Northern Ireland.

Nothing in this or the last foregoing section shall authorise any department of the Government of Northern Ireland to incur any expenses attributable to the provisions of those sections until provision has been made by the Parliament of Northern Ireland for those expenses to be defrayed out of moneys provided by that Parliament.

The Lord Chancellor may with the consent of the Minister for the Civil Service make rules with respect to the superannuation benefits payable to or in respect of persons who have been employed—

The Secretary of State may with the consent of the Minister for the Civil Service make rules with respect to the superannuation benefits payable to or in respect of persons who have been employed—

The offices referred to in subsections (1)(a) and (2)(a) of this section are the following, that is to say—