§ —(1) Where during the period of the present emergency a person serving as a constable or fireman ceases so to serve in order to serve in His Majesty's forces, the appropriate authority shall have power to make to or in respect of him such payments as are hereafter in this Section provided.
§ Any such person is hereafter in this Act referred to as a person to whom this Section applies.
§ (2)While a person to whom this Section applies is serving during the said period in His Majesty's forces, the appropriate authority may pay to him or to or for the benefit of his wife or other dependants nominated by him, a sum which shall not exceed the pay and allowances he would have received if he had continued to serve as a constable or fireman, after deducting there from the amount of his service pay.
§ (3)On any such person ceasing to serve in His Majesty's forces, the appropriate authority may, for such period as the authority may determine having regard to till the circumstances of the case, but not in any case expiring later than one year after the end of the period of the present emergency, pay to him or to or for the benefit of his wife or other dependants nominated by him, a sum not greater than the pay and allowances he would have received if he had been serving as a constable or fireman.
§ (4)Any payment made under this Section to any person shall—
- (a)in the case of a constable, be made out of the fund out of which his pension would have been payable if he had continued to serve as a constable in the police force to which he belonged immediately before he ceased so to serve; and
- (b)in the case of a fireman, be made out of the fund out of which there are paid the expenses of the fire brigade to which he belonged immediately before he erased to serve as a fireman. — [Mr. Peake.]
§ Brought up, and read the First time.
§ Motion made, and Question, "That the Clause be read a Second time," put, and agreed to.
§ Clause added to the Bill.