CIVIL PENSIONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1925

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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

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CIVIL PENSIONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1925 - SECT 1