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CIVIL PENSIONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1925

CIVIL PENSIONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1925 - LONG TITLE

An Act to enable pensions and gratuities to be granted for
meritorious public services.
[20th May 1925]
Power to grant pensions or gratuities for distinguished services.

CIVIL PENSIONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1925 - SECT 1

1.(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Minister of
Finance for Northern Ireland (in this Act referred to as "the
Minister") may grant a pension or gratuity on account of meritorious
public services rendered by any person

(a)in any public office in Northern Ireland, as respects service in
which no provisions of the enactments for the time being in force
relating to superannuation apply; or

(b)to the cause of science, literature, the fine arts or social
work and progress in Northern Ireland;

(2) A pension or gratuity under this Act shall not be granted
except to a person who, having rendered meritorious public services
to which this Act applies, has attained the age of seventy years
or is totally incapacitated from his work or occupation, or to the
widow, children or dependants of a deceased person who has rendered
such meritorious public services. The Minister shall in each case
have regard to the private means of the person to whom a pension
or gratuity is proposed to be, or has been, granted, and may at
any time cancel or alter the amount of any pension according as he
thinks fit, and may require any such person to furnish him with a
statement of means.

(3) One pension or gratuity only, and no more, may be granted to
or received by any one person under this Act.

Subs.(4) rep. by 1936 c.31 (NI) s.15 sch.2

CIVIL PENSIONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1925 - SECT 2
Limitation upon amount of pensions, etc.

2.(1) No pension shall be granted under this Act of any greater
yearly amount than [two hundred and fifty pounds], and, in the case
of the widow, children and dependants of a person who has rendered
meritorious public services to which this Act applies, the aggregate
yearly amount of all such pensions shall not exceed [five hundred
pounds]. A pension may be granted for a specified period of time
or without limitation as to time, but shall in every case cease to
be payable on the death of the pensioner.

(2) No gratuity shall be granted under this Act of any greater
amount than [two hundred and fifty pounds], and, in the case of
the widow, children and dependants of a person who has rendered
meritorious public services to which this Act applies, the aggregate
amount of all such gratuities shall not exceed [five hundred
pounds].

(3) The amount which may be paid by the Minister in respect of
pensions and gratuities under this Act shall not exceed the sum of
[one thousand five hundred pounds] in any financial year.

CIVIL PENSIONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1925 - SECT 3
Provision of moneys by Parliament for purposes of Act.

3.(1) The sums required under this Act for pensions and gratuities
shall be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament, and shall be
paid at such times and in such manner as the Minister may direct.

(2) The accounts of the appropriation of the supply grants for the
purposes of this Act shall be accompanied by a statement showing
the names of the persons in receipt of pensions and gratuities
under this Act in the financial year to which such accounts relate,
the amount of each such pension and gratuity, and the reasons for
granting it; but such statement shall not be laid before the House
of Commons unless that House, as respects any particular financial
year, so directs.

CIVIL PENSIONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1925 - SECT 4
Short title.

4. This Act may be cited as the Civil Pensions Act (Northern
Ireland), 1925.