Statutory Instruments
PENSIONS
Made
6th March 1996
Laid before Parliament
7th March 1996
Coming into force
27th March 1996
1. This Order may be cited as the Superannuation (Admission to Schedule 1 of the Superannuation Act 1972) Order 1996 and shall come into force on 27th March 1996.
2. The office of the Chairman of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board is hereby added to the offices listed in Schedule 1 to the Superannuation Act 1972 with effect from 1st March 1989.
D. L. Willetts
Parliamentary Secretary, Office of Public Service for the Minister for the Civil Service
6th March 1996
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order adds the office of Chairman of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board to the offices listed in Schedule 1 to the Superannuation Act 1972 so that section 1 of that Act (under which the Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme and the Civil Service Compensation Scheme have been made) may apply to it.
Provision for the appointment of the Chairman of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board was made jointly by the Home Secretary and the Secretary of State for Scotland under the terms of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme brought into existence by the exercise of the Royal Prerogative and announced in Parliament on 24th June 1964.
Under the power conferred by section 1(8)(a) of the Superannuation Act 1972 the Order takes effect from 1st March 1989.