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A.D. 1952

Provision as to pension rights.

Transport

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shall not apply to so much of the said remuneration and expenses as may be apportioned by the Tribunal to the exercise after the passing of this Act of the jurisdiction transferred to them by section seventy-three of the Transport Act, 1947, in respect of appeals from licensing authorities under Part I of the Road and 5 Rail Traffic Act, 1933.

Pension rights and Compensation to Employees

24. (1) The Minister may make regulations--

(a) for providing or securing the provision of pensions to or

in respect of persons who, having been in the employ. 10 ment of the Commission and, in connection with that employment, having had pension rights under pension schemes (hereafter in this section referred to as "existing pension schemes "), lose that employment in conse- quence of the duties imposed on the Commission by 15 this Act as to the disposal of the property held for the purposes of the existing road haulage under- taking or of any modification of the functions of the Commission effected by or by virtue of this Act; and (b) for amending, for the purposes aforesaid, any existing 20

pension scheme and any statutory provision relating thereto or any trust deed, rules or other instrument made for the purposes thereof.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the preceding sub- section, regulations made thereunder may provide, in a case 25 where any such person obtains other employment and, in con- nection with that employment, has rights under another pension scheme, for the making of a payment, by way of transfer value or otherwise, to the persons administering that scheme, being a payment by the Commission or out of any pension fund estab- 30 lished under the existing pension scheme or a payment partly by the Commission and partly out of any such pension fund, and for conferring on the said person, in accordance with arrange- ments made with the persons administering the other pension scheme, rights equal in value to those which he had under the 35 existing pension scheme; and the regulations may empower any persons administering that other pension scheme to carry out any such arrangements, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the scheme or in any statutory provision, trust deed, rules or other instrument made for the purposes thereof...

(3) Regulations made under this section may contain such supplementary and consequential provisions as the Minister thinks necessary, including--

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(a) provisions as to the procedure for determining questions

arising under the regulations and the manner in which 45 and the persons by whom such questions are to be determined; and

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