§ 1. The compensation which may be awarded to an officer or constable shall be an annual allowance.
946§ 2. The annual allowance shall be calculated in like manner as the pension which the officer or constable would have been entitled to receive under the enactments applicable to him if he had retired voluntarily and had been qualified in respect of his length of service for a pension, save that for the purposes of that calculation the following provisions shall have effect:
- (a) there shall be added to his completed years of actual service, if the proportion of salary on which his allowance is calculated is one-fiftieth, ten years, and if that proportion is one-sixtieth, twelve years, but any such addition of years shall not affect the amount of salary in respect of which his annual allowance is to be calculated; and
- (b) if he has, in addition to his completed years of actual service, served
947 for a period exceeding six months, his service for that period shall be reckoned as a completed year of actual service.
§ 3. The allowance awarded to an officer or constable shall in no case exceed the maximum pension which could under the enactments applicable to him have been awarded to him if he had retired for length of service only.
§ 4. In the event of a constable dying within one year after an annual allowance has been awarded to him under this Schedule, the Lord Lieutenant may, if he thinks fit, grant an annuity to the widow or children of the constable in like manner as if the allowance were a pension granted to the constable on retirement.
§ Government Amendments made:
§ In the first paragraph, after the word "transfer" ["who after the day of transfer"], insert the words (a) "retires voluntarily under the conditions in that behalf hereinafter contained; or"; leave out the words "enactments aforesaid, be entitled" and insert instead thereof the words "existing enactments applicable to him, be entitled on retirement."
§ At the end of first paragraph insert:—
§ (2). The conditions of voluntary retirement are that—
- (a) Notice of the intention to retire must be given within one year after the day of transfer;
- (b) The notice must be given in manner prescribed by the Lord Lieutenant;
- (c) The retirement must not take place until at least six months after the notice of retirement has been given, and may be postponed by the Lord Lieutenant, if he thinks fit, to any later date not being more than two years after the day of transfer; and
- (d) The retiring officer or constable must show to the satisfaction of the Lord Lieutenant that he is not incapacitated for the performance of his duties by mental or bodily infirmity and will not be entitled to retire on the maximum pension for length of service under the enactments aforesaid before the expiration of two years from the date of transfer, and that he joined the force before the passing of this Act.
§ In the second paragraph (Rules), at the beginning of Rule No. 2, insert the words "where the officer or constable is required to retire"; leave out the words "receive under the enactments applicable to him if he had retired voluntarily," and insert instead thereof the words "if he had retired from length of service under the existing enactments applicable to him";
§ In Rule 2, paragraph (a), leave out the words "but any such addition of years shall not affect the amount of salary in respect of which his annual allowance is to be calculated; and," and insert instead thereof the words:—
§ (b) his salary shall be taken at the amount which it would have reached if he had continued to serve in the same rank for the number of years so added, and in the case of a district inspector of the Royal Irish Constabulary of the third class as if he were entitled to promotion to the second class on the completion of one and a-half years' service in the third class, and, in the case of a district inspector of the Royal Irish Constabulary of the second class, as if he were entitled to promotion to the first class on the completion of eleven years' service in the second class;
§ (c) if the number of his completed years of service, as reckoned under this rule, is less than the minimum number of years of service for which provision as respects pensions is made in the appropriate pension scale that scale shall apply with the substitution of the number of his completed years of service as so reckoned for that minimum number.
§ In Rules No. 2, paragraph (b), at the end insert the words:—
§ "3. Where the officer or constable retires under the conditions of voluntary retirement the provisions of the last preceding rule shall apply with the substitution of five years for ten years and six years for twelve years";
§ In Rules No. 3, leave, out the words "the maximum pension which could under the enactments applicable to him if he had retired for length of service only," and insert instead thereof the words "two-thirds of his actual pensionable salary";
§ In Rules No. 4, leave out the words "an annuity" ["grant an annuity"], and insert instead thereof the words "a gratuity."—[Mr. Birrell.]
949§ Question put, "That the Schedule as amended be the Fourth Schedule of the Bill."
§ The Committee divided: Ayes, 299; Noes, 166.
951| Division No. 454.] | AYES. | [11.45 p.m. |
| Abraham, William (Dublin, Harbour) | Esslemont, George Birnie | Law, Hugh A. (Donegal, West) |
| Abraham, Rt. Hon. William (Rhondda) | Falconer, James | Lawson, Sir W. (Cumb'rld, Cockerm'th) |
| Acland, Francis Dyke | Farrell, James Patrick | Leach, Charles |
| Adamson, William | Fenwick, Rt. Hon. Charles | Levy, Sir Maurice |
| Addison, Dr. Christopher | Ferens, Rt. Hon. Thomas Robinson | Lundon, T. |
| Adkins, Sir W. Ryland D. | Ffrench, Peter | Lynch, A. A. |
| Agnew, Sir George | Field, William | Macdonald, J. M. (Falkirk Burghs) |
| Ainsworth, John Stirling | Fiennes, Hon. Eustace Edward | McGhee, Richard |
| Alden, Percy | Fitzgibbon, John | Macnamara, Rt. Hon. Dr. T. J. |
| Allen, Rt. Hn. Charles P. (Stroud) | Flavin, Michael Joseph | MacNeill, J. G. Swift (Donegal, South) |
| Armitage, R. | France, Gerald Ashburner | Macpherson, James Ian |
| Arnold, Sydney | Gill, A. H. | MacVeagh, Jeremiah |
| Asquith, Rt. Hon. Herbert Henry | Ginnell, L. | M'Callum, Sir John M. |
| Baker, Harold T. (Accrington) | Gladstone, W. G. C. | McKenna, Rt. Hon. Reginald |
| Baker, Joseph Allen (Finsbury, E.) | Glanville, H. J. | M'Laren, Hon. F.W.S. (Lincs., Spalding) |
| Balfour, Sir Robert (Lanark) | Goddard, Sir Daniel Ford | Manfield, Harry |
| Baring, Sir Godfrey (Barnstaple) | Goldstone, Frank | Markham, Sir Arthur Basil |
| Barnes, George N. | Greenwood, Granville G. (Peterborough) | Marshall, Arthur Harold |
| Barton, William | Greenwood, Hamar (Sunderland) | Martin, J. |
| Beauchamp, Sir Edward | Greig, Colonel J. W. | Masterman, Rt. Hon. C. F. G. |
| Beck, Arthur Cecil | Grey, Rt. Hon. Sir Edward | Meagher, Michael |
| Bentham, George Jackson | Griffith, Ellis Jones | Meehan, Francis E. (Leitrim, N.) |
| Betheil, Sir John Henry | Guest, Major Hon. C. H. C. (Pembroke) | Menzies, Sir Walter |
| Birrell, Rt. Hon. Augustine | Guest, Hon. Frederick E. (Dorset, E.) | Millar, James Duncan |
| Black, Arthur W. | Guiney, Patrick | Molloy, Michael |
| Boland, John Pius | Gulland, John William | Molteno, Percy Alport |
| Booth, Frederick Handel | Gwynn, Stephen Lucius (Galway) | Mond, Sir Alfred Moritz |
| Bowerman, C. W. | Hackett, J. | Mooney, John J. |
| Boyle, Daniel (Mayo, North) | Hall, Frederick (Normanton) | Morgan, George Hay |
| Brace, William | Hancock, John George | Morrell, Philip |
| Brady, P. J. | Harcourt, Rt. Hon. Lewis (Rossendale) | Morison, Hector |
| Brocklehurst, William B. | Harcourt, Robert V. (Montrose) | Muldoon, John |
| Brunner, J. F. L. | Hardie, J. Keir | Munro, R. |
| Bryce, J. Annan | Harmsworth, Cecil (Luton, Beds.) | Murray, Captain Hon. Arthur C. |
| Buckmaster, Stanley O. | Harmsworth, R. L. (Caithness-shire) | Nannetti, Joseph P. |
| Burke, E. Haviland- | Harvey, A. G. C. (Rochdale) | Needham, Christopher Thomas |
| Burns, Rt. Hon. John | Harvey, T. E. (Leeds, W.) | Nolan, Joseph |
| Byles, Sir William Pollard | Harvey, W. E. (Derbyshire, N.E.) | Norton, Capt. Cecil W. |
| Carr-Gomm, H. W. | Haslam, James (Derbyshire) | Nugent, Sir Walter Richard |
| Cawley, Sir Frederick (Prestwich) | Haslam, Lewis (Monmouth) | O'Brien, Patrick (Kilkenny) |
| Chancellor, H. G. | Havelock-Allan, Sir Henry | O'Connor, John, (Kildare, N.) |
| Chapple, Dr. William Allen | Hayden, John Patrick | O'Connor, T. P. (Liverpool) |
| Clancy, John Joseph | Hayward, Evan | O'Doherty, Philip |
| Clough, William | Hazleton, Richard | O'Dowd, John |
| Clynes, John R. | Healy, Timothy Michael (Cork, N.E.) | Ogden, Fred |
| Collins, Godfrey P. (Greenock) | Helme, Sir Norval Watson | O'Grady, James |
| Collins, Stephen (Lambeth) | Henderson, Arthur (Durham) | O'Kelly, Edward P. (Wicklow, W.) |
| Condon, Thomas Joseph | Henderson, J. M. (Aberdeen, W.) | O'Kelly, James (Roscommon, N.) |
| Cornwall, Sir Edwin A. | Henry, Sir Charles | O'Malley, William |
| Cotton, William Francis | Herbert, Col. Sir Ivor (Mon. S.) | O'Neill, Dr. Charles (Armagh, S.) |
| Craig, Herbert J. (Tynemouth) | Higham, John Sharp | O'Shaughnessy, P. J. |
| Crawshay-Williams, Eliot | Hinds, John | O'Shee, James John |
| Crean, Eugene | Hobhouse, Rt. Hon. Charles E. H. | O'Sullivan, Timothy |
| Crooks, William | Hodge, John | Palmer Godfrey Mark |
| Crumley, Patrick | Hogge, James Myles | Parker, James (Halifax) |
| Cullinan, John | Holmes, Daniel Turner | Pearce, Robert (Staffs, Leek) |
| Dalziel, Rt. Hon. Sir J. H. (Kirkcaldy) | Holt, Richard Durning | Pease, Rt. Hon. Joseph A. (Rotherham) |
| Davies, Ellis William (Eifion) | Horne, C. Silvester (Ipswich) | Phillips, Col. Ivor (Southampton) |
| Davies, Timothy (Lincs., Louth) | Howard, Hon. Geoffrey | Phillips, John (Longford, S.) |
| Davies, Sir W. Howell (Bristol, S.) | Hughes, Spencer Leigh | Pirle, Duncan Vernon |
| Dawes, J. A. | Illingworth, Percy H. | Pointer, Joseph |
| De Forest, Baron | Isaacs, Rt. Hon. Sir Rufus | Pollard, Sir George H. |
| Delany, William | John, Edward Thomas | Ponsonby, Arthur A. W. H. |
| Denman, Hon. R. D. | Jones, H. Haydn (Merioneth) | Power, Patrick Joseph |
| Devlin, Joseph | Jones, J. Towyn (Carmarthen, East) | Price, C. E. (Edinburgh, Central) |
| Dickinson, W. H. | Jones, Leif Stratten (Notts, Rushcliffe) | Price, Sir Robert J. (Norfolk, E.) |
| Donelan, Captain A. | Jones, W. S. Glyn- (T. H'mts, Stepney) | Priestley, Sir Arthur (Grantham) |
| Doris, William | Jowett, Frederick William | Priestley, Sir W. E. B. (Bradford, E.) |
| Duffy, William J. | Joyce, Michael | Pringle, William M. R. |
| Duncan, C. (Barrow-in-Furness) | Kellaway, Frederick George | Radford, G. H. |
| Duncan, J. Hastings (Yorks, Otley) | Kennedy, Vincent Paul | Raffan, Peter Wilson |
| Edwards, Clement (Glamorgan, E.) | Kilbride, Denis | Raphael, Sir Herbert H. |
| Edwards, John Hugh (Glamorgan, Mid) | King, J. | Rea, Rt. Hon. Russell (South Shields) |
| Reddy, M | ||
| Elverston, Sir Harold | Lambert, Rt. Hon. G. (Devon,S.Molton) | Redmond, John E. (Waterford) |
| Esmonde, Dr. John (Tipperary, N.) | Lambert, Richard (Wilts, Cricklade) | Redmond, William (Clare, E.) |
| Esmonde, Sir Thomas (Wexford, N.) | Lardner, James Carrige Rushe | Redmond, William Archer (Tyrone, E.) |
| Rendall, Athelstan | Sherwell, Arthur James | Wason, Rt. Hon. E (Clackmannan) |
| Richards, Thomas | Shortt, Edward | Wason, John Cathcart (Orkney) |
| Richardson, Albion (Peckham) | Simon, Sir John Allsebrook | Watt, Henry A. |
| Richardson, Thomas (Whitehaven) | Smith, Albert (Lancs., Clitheroe) | Webb, H. |
| Roberts, Charles H. (Lincoln) | Smyth, Thomas F. (Leitrim, S.) | Wedgwood, Josiah C. |
| Roberts, G. H. (Norwich) | Stanley, Albert (Staffs., N.W.) | White, J. Dundas (Glasgow, Tradeston) |
| Robertson, Sir G. Scott (Bradford) | Sutherland, J. E. | White, Patrick (Meath, North) |
| Roberts, Sir J. H. (Denbighs) | Sutton, John E. | Whyte, A. F. (Perth) |
| Robertson, John M. (Tyneside) | Taylor, John W. (Durham) | Wiles, Thomas |
| Robinson, Sidney | Taylor, Thomas (Bolton) | Wilkie, Alexander |
| Roch, Walter F. (Pembroke) | Tennant, Harold John | Williams, J. (Glamorgan) |
| Roche, Augustine (Louth) | Thorne, G. R. (Wolverhampton) | Williams, Llewelyn (Carmarthen) |
| Roe, Sir Thomas | Thorne, William (West Ham) | Williams, Penry (Middlesbrough) |
| Rose, Sir Charles Day | Toulmin, Sir George | Wilson, Hon. G. G. (Hull, W.) |
| Rowlands, James | Trevelyan, Charles Philips | Wilson, Rt. Hon. J. W. (Worcs., N.) |
| Rowntree, Arnold | Ure, Rt. Hon. Alexander | Wilson, W. T. (Westhoughton) |
| Russell, Rt. Hon. Thomas W. | Verney, Sir Harry | Winfrey, Richard |
| Samuel, Rt. Hon. H. L. (Cleveland) | Wadsworth, J. | Wood, Rt. Hon. T. McKinnon (Glas.) |
| Samuel, J. (Stockton-on-Tees) | Walsh, J. (Cork, South) | Young, Samuel (Cavan, East) |
| Scanlan, Thomas | Walsh, Stephen (Lancs., Ince) | Young, William (Perth, East) |
| Schwann, Rt. Hon. Sir C. E. | Walton, Sir Joseph | Yoxall, Sir James Henry |
| Scott, A. MacCallum (Glas., Bridgeton) | Ward, John (Stoke-on-Trent) | |
| Seely, Col. Rt. Hon. J. E. B. | Ward, W. Dudley (Southampton) | TELLERS FOR THE AYES.—Mr. Wedgwood Benn and Mr. W. Jones. |
| Sheehy, David | Waring, Walter | |
| NOES. | ||
| Aitken, Sir William Max | Greene, W. R. | Pease, Herbert Pike (Darlington) |
| Amery, L. C. M. S. | Gretton, John | Peel, Captain R. F. (Woodbridge) |
| Archer-Shee, Major Martin | Guinness, Hon. W.E. (Bury S.Edmunds) | Peto, Basil Edward |
| Ashley, W. W. | Gwynne, R. S. (Sussex, Eastbourne) | Pole-Carew, Sir R. |
| Baird, J. L. | Haddock, George Bahr | Pollock, Ernest Murray |
| Baker, Sir R. L. (Dorset, N.) | Hall, D. B. (Isle of Wight) | Pretyman, Ernest George |
| Balcarres, Lord | Hamersley, Alfred St. George | Pryce-Jones, Col. E. (M'tgom'y B'ghs.) |
| Baldwin, Stanley | Hamilton, Lord C. J. (Kensington, S.) | Quilter, Sir William Eley C. |
| Banbury, Sir Frederick George | Hamilton, Marquess of (Londonderry) | Randles, Sir John S. |
| Baring, Maj. Hon. Guy V. (Winchester) | Hardy, Rt. Hon. Laurence | Rawlinson, John Frederick Peel |
| Barlow, Montague (Salford, South) | Harris, Henry Percy | Rawson, Col. R. H. |
| Barnston, H. | Harrison-Broadley, H. B. | Roberts, S. (Sheffield, Ecclesall) |
| Barrie, H. T. | Hickman, Colonel Thomas E. | Rolleston, Sir John |
| Bathurst, Hon. A. B. (Glouc., E.) | Hill, Sir Clement L. | Rothschild, Lionel de |
| Bathurst, C. (Wilts, Wilton) | Hills, John Waller | Rutherford, John (Lancs., Darwen) |
| Beach, Hon. Michael Hugh Hicks | Hill-Wood, Samuel | Salter, Arthur Clavell |
| Beckett, Hon. Gervase | Hoare, S. J. G. | Samuel, Sir Harry (Norwood) |
| Benn, Arthur Shirley (Plymouth) | Hohler, G. F. | Sanders, Robert A. |
| Bentinck, Lord H. Cavendish- | Hope, Major J. A. (Midlothian) | Sanderson, Lancelot |
| Bigland, Alfred | Horne, Edgar (Surrey, Guildford) | Sassoon, Sir Philip |
| Bird, A. | Houston, Robert Paterson | Scott, Leslie (Liverpool, Exchange) |
| Blair, Reginald | Hunt, Rowland | Smith, Harold (Warrington) |
| Boyton, James | Hunter, Sir C. R. | Spear, Sir John Ward |
| Bridgeman, W. Clive | Jackson, Sir John | Stanier, Beville |
| Bull, Sir William James | Jessel, Capt. H. M. | Stanley, Hon. G. F. (Preston) |
| Burdett-Coutts, W. | Kerr-Smiley, Peter Kerr | Starkey, John R. |
| Burn, Colonel, C. R. | Kerry, Earl of | Steel-Maitland, A. D. |
| Butcher, John George | Kinloch-Cooke, Sir Clement | Stewart, Gershom |
| Campbell, Rt. Hon. J. (Dublin Univ.) | Lane-Fox, G. R. | Swift, Rigby |
| Campion, W. R. | Larmor, Sir J. | Talbot, Lord E. |
| Carlile, Sir Edward Hildred | Law, Rt. Hon. A. Bonar (Bootle) | Terrell, H. (Gloucester) |
| Cassel, Felix | Lawson, Hon. H. (T. H'mts, Mile End) | Thompson, Robert (Belfast, N.) |
| Cautley, H. S. | Lewisham, Viscount | Thomson, W. Mitchell- (Down, N.) |
| Cave, George | Lloyd, George Ambrose | Thynne, Lord Alexander |
| Chambers, James | Locker-Lampson, G. (Salisbury) | Tobin, Alfred Aspinall |
| Clay, Captain H. H. Spender | Lockwood, Rt. Hon. Lt.-Col. A. R. | Touche, George Alexander |
| Clive, Captain Percy Archer | Lonsdale, Sir J. Brownlee | Tryon, Capt. George Clement |
| Coates, Major Sir Edward Feetham | Lowe, Sir F. W. (Birm., Edgbaston) | Tullibardine, Marquess of |
| Cooper, Richard Ashmole | Lyttelton, Rt. Hon. A. (S. Geo. Han. S.) | Valentia, Viscount |
| Courthope, George Loyd | Lyttelton, Hon. J. C. (Droitwich) | Warde, Col. C. E. (Kent, Mid) |
| Craik, Sir Henry | MacCaw, Wm. J. MacGeagh | Wheler, Granville, C. H. |
| Dalziel, D. (Brixton) | Mackinder, Halford J. | White, Major G. D. (Lancs., Southport) |
| Dixon, C. H. | Macmaster, Donald | Williams, Col. R. (Dorset, W.) |
| Doughty, Sir George | M'Neill, Ronald (Kent, St. Augustine's) | Willoughby, Major Hon. Claud |
| Eyres-Monsell, Bolton M. | Malcolm, Ian | Wills, Sir Gilbert |
| Faber, George Denison (Clapham) | Mason, James F. (Windsor) | Wilson, A. Stanley (Yorks, E. R.) |
| Faber, Capt. W. V. (Hants, W.) | Middlemore, John Throgmorton | Winterton, Earl |
| Falle, B. G. | Mills, Hon. Charles Thomas | Wood, Hon. E. F. L. (Ripon) |
| Fell, Arthur | Morrison-Bell, Capt. E. F. (Ashburton) | Wood, John (Stalybridge) |
| Fetherstonhaugh, Godfrey | Mount, William Arthur | Worthington-Evans, L. |
| Fitzroy, Hon. Edward A. | Newton, Harry Kottingham | Wright, Henry Fitzherbert |
| Gastrell, Major W. Houghton | Nicholson, William G. (Petersfield) | Yate, Col. Charles Edward |
| Gibbs, G. A. | Nield, Herbert | Younger, Sir George |
| Gilmour, Captain John | O'Neill, Hon. A. E. B. (Antrim, Mid) | |
| Gordon, Hon. John Edward (Brighton) | Orde-Powlett, Hon. W. G. A. | TELLERS FOR THE NOES.—Mr. Neville and Mr. Ingleby. |
| Goulding, Edward Alfred | Parkes, Ebenezer |
Question put, and agreed to.
§ Whereupon the Chairman left the Chair to make his Report to the House, pursuant to the Order of the House of the 14th October.
§ Bill reported, as amended, to be considered upon Monday next, and to be printed. [Bill 341.]
§ The Orders for the remaining Government business were read, and postponed.
954§ Whereupon, Mr. DEPUTY-SPEAKER, pursuant to the Order of the House of 14th October, proposed the Question, "That this House do now adjourn."
§ Adjourned accordingly at Six minutes after Twelve o'clock.