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Repealed

S.L.R. 1893,

Definition of "Colony."

Full R to of

Pension

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No. 2.

COLONIAL GOVERNORS (PENSIONS) ACT, 1865 (28, 29 Vict. c. 113). An Act to authorize the Payment of Retiring Pensions to Colonial

Governors.

[5th July 1865.]

Whereas it is expedient that Retiring Pensions should be granted in certain Cases to Officers who have administered the Government of Her Majesty's Colonial Possessions: Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual anil Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows :

1. In this Act the Term "Colony" includes any Plantation, Island, or other Possession within Her Majesty's Dominions, exclusive of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and of the Islands being immediate Dependencies thereof, and exclusive of India as defined by the Act of Parliament of 1858 "for the better Government of India."

2. The full Rate of Pension herein after referred to shall be as follows, that is to say:

In the Case of Officers who shall for at least Four Years have administered the Government of any Colony or Colonies in which the Salary of the Governor is not less than Five thousand Pounds, One thousand Pounds:

In the Case of Officers who shall for at least Four Years have administered the Government of any Colony or Colonies in which the Salary of the Governor is not less than Two thousand five hundred Pounds, Seven hundred and fifty Pounds:

In the Case of Officers who shall for at least Four Years have administered the Government of any Colony or Colonies in which the Salary of the Governor is not less than One thousand two hundred Pounds, Five hundred Pounds:

In other Cases, Two hundred and fifty Pounds.

3. The reduced Rate of Pension herein-after referred to shall in all Cases be Two Thirds of the full Rate.

4. One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State may, by Writing under his Hand, grant the full Rate of Pension to any P'erson who, being of the Age of Sixty, shall have administered the Government of any Colony or Colonies for Periods amounting in the whole to Eighteen Years, or who, being of the Age aforesaid, shall have administered such Government or Govern- ments for Periods amounting in the whole to Ten Years, and shall have been employed in the whole, either in such Administration or in the permanent Civil Service of Her Majesty, for Periods amounting in the whole to Twenty-five Years, or to any Person who, having administered such Government or Governments for Periods amounting in the whole to Fifteen Years, shall have established, to the Satisfaction of such Secretary of State, that he is incapable, from Infirmity of Mind or Body contracted while

administering his Government, of discharging the Duties of any Office in the Public Service, and that such Infirmity is likely to be permanent.

duced Rate

5. Such Secretary of State may, by such Writing as aforesaid, When re- grant the reduced Rate of Pension to any Person being of the Age of Sixty, who, after having attained the Age of Forty, shall have may be

granted. administered the Government of any Colony or Colonies for Periods amounting in the whole to Twelve Years, or to any Person being of the Age of Sixty, who, after having attained the Age of Forty, shall have administered such Government or Governments for Periods amounting in the whole to Eight Years, and shall have been employed in the whole, either in such Administration or in the permanent Civil Service of Her Majesty, for Periods amounting in the whole to Twenty Years, or to any Person who, having administered such Government or Governments for Periods amounting in the whole to Ten Years, shall have established to the Satisfaction of auch Secretary of State that he is incapable, from Infirmity of Mind or Body contracted while administering his Government, of discharging the Duties of any Office in the Public Service, and that such Infirmity is likely to be permanent.

not to be counted

6. No Person whose Claim to a Pension under the Provisions of Permanent this Act is founded in part upon his Employment in the perma- Civil Service nent Civil Service of Her Majesty shall be entitled to claim a Superannuation Allowance, in respect to the same Employment, under this or under the Provisions of any other Act of Parliament.

any other Act.

sion on account of

7. In case any Person to whom a Pension shall have been Deductions granted under the Provisions of this Act shall be or become from Pen- entitled to any Half Pay, Salary, or other Emolument from any Public Revenue raised, or in respect of any Public Services per- Half Pay, &c. formed, within Her Majesty's Dominions, his Pension ahall be reduced by Half the Amount of such Half Pay, Salary, or Emolument.

Pension.

8. In case any Person to whom a Pension shall have been Advancement grauted under the Provisions of this Act shall, by reason of his to higher Re-employment, become eligible for any higher Kate of Pension Rates of than that already granted him, One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State may, by such Writing as aforesaid, grant to him such higher Rate of Pension.

9. In case any Person, having administered the Government of Person re- any Colony and not being of the full Age of Sixty, shall be called ceiving Pen.

sion bound upon by Her Majesty to administer the Government of any Colony

to accept Em- not being of a lower Class than that on which his Rate of Pension ployment till has been, or in case of his Retirement on reaching the Age of Sixty of Age of would be calculated, and not being incapable from Infirmity of Sixty; Mind or Body of administering such Government, shall refuse to administer the same; or if any such Person, not being of the full not to relin- Age of Sixty-five, shall relinquish such Government without the quish it till Permission of Her Majesty, or shall neglect or decline to execute Sixty five. the Duties thereof satisfactorily, the said Secretary of State may by Writing under his Hand declare that such Person has forfeited all Claim to any Pension under this Act, and such Claim shall thereupon be forfeited accordingly.