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Repealed 8.L.R._{1987

As to Pension

of Person also Civil Service,

employed in

What to be deened Em- ployment in Civil Service.

Secretary of State to determine

when an Officer is in

Adminis. tration of Government. Repealed S.L.R. 1893.

Statement of Pensions to

10. In case any Person shall have administered the Government of any Colony or Colonies, and shall have likewise been employed in the permanent Civil Service of Her Majesty, but shall not have become entitled to any Pension under the preceding Clauses of this Act, the Number of Years passed in the Government of such Colony or Colonies shall, for the Purpose of computing any Superannuation Allowance to be granted to sach Person under the Superannuation Act, 1859, be taken to have been passed in the permanent Civil Service of Her Majesty, and at the Rate of Salary last received by such Person in respect of his Employment in such permanent Civil Service.

11. Any Person claiming a Pension shall, for the Purposes of this Act, be taken to have been employed in the permanent Civil Service of Her Majesty while holding any Office which at the Time of his claiming such Pension would entitle the Holder thereof to Superannuation Allowance under the Superannuation Act, 1859.

12. One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State may, with the Consent of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, from Time to Time determine under what Conditions and to what Extent any Officer shall be deemed for the Purposes of this Act to have been administering the Government of any Colony while administering the same provisionally, or while absent from his Government with Permission of Her Majesty; and for the Pur- poses of this Act the Commission issued under the Great Seal of the Territory of New South Wales for the Government of the District of Port Phillip shall be taken to have constituted that District a Colony.

13. All Pensions granted under this Act shall be paid out of he laid before such Monies as Parliament may provide for the Purpose, and a Statement of all such Pensions shall be laid annually before Parliament.

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No. 3.

COLONIAL GOVERNORS (PENSIONS) ACT, 1872 (35, 36 Vict. c. 29).

An Act to amend the Act of the Session of the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter one hundred and thirteen, intituled "An Act to authorize the Payment of Retiring Pensions to Colonial Governors."

[18th July 1872.]

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A.D. 1872.

c. 113.

WHEREAS by the Colonial Governors Pensions Act, 1865, one 28 & 29 Vict. of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State is authorised to grant to persons who have administered the government of any colony or colonies for certain periods the full rate of pension or the reduced rate of pension as therein provided, and it is expedient to authorise in certain cases an increase of such reduced rate of pension, and otherwise to amend the said Act:

Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1. The principal Act and this Act may be cited together as Short title. The Colonial Governors (Pensions) Acts, 1865 and 1872, and each

of them may be cited as the Colonial Governors (Pensions) Act

of the year in which it was passed.

2. This Act shall be construed as one with the Act of the Construction session of the twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth years of the reign of Act.

of Her present Majesty, chapter one hundred and thirteen, intituled "An Act to authorize the payment of retiring pensions to Colonial Governors," in this Act referred to as the principal Act.

Power to

increase of reduced rate of pension.

3. Where one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State grants to any person the reduced rate of pension under section grant an five of the principal Act, he may, if he think fit, grant to such person a pension,-

(1.) If such person has administered the government of any colony or colonies for periods amounting in the whole to not less than fifteen years, equal to the reduced rate of pension, with the addition of such fraction of the full rate of pension defined by the principal Act as is specified in part one of the schedule to this Act; and

(2.) If such person has administered the government of any colony or colonies for periods amounting in the whole to eight years, and has been employed either in such administration or in the permanent civil service of Her Majesty for periods amounting in the whole to not less than twenty-two years, equal to the reduced rate of pension, with the addition of such fraction of the full rate of pension defined by the principal Act as is specified in part two of the schedule to this Act.

A.D. 1872.