HC Deb 25 July 1946 vol 426 cc356-7

"(1) The Minister may from time to time recommend to the Treasury that there shall be paid to the Commissioner or any deputy Commissioner an annual sum by way of superannuation allowance calculated in accordance with the Fifth Schedule to this Act if either—

  1. (a) he is at the time of his retirement over the age of seventy-two or, where he retires after fifteen years' service, the age of sixty-five; or
  2. (b) the Minister is satisfied by means of a medical certificate that at the time of his retirement he is, by reason of infirmity of mind or body, incapable of discharging the duties of his office and that the incapacity is likely to be permanent.

(2) For the purposes of the foregoing Subsection and the said Schedule—

  1. (a) service as Commissioner or deputy Commissioner which is not remunerated by means of a salary shall be disregarded;
  2. (b) service as deputy Commissioner shall, subject to the foregoing paragraph, count (in the case of a person retiring as Commissioner) as service as Commissioner;
  3. (c) the Treasury may by regulations provide for counting as service as Commissioner or as deputy Commissioner pensionable service in any other capacity under the Crown.

(3) The decision of the Treasury shall be final on any question arising as to—

  1. (a) the amount of any superannuation allowance under this section; or
  2. (b) the reckoning of any service for the purpose of calculating such an allowance.

(4) Where the rate of a Commissioner or deputy Commissioner's superannuation allowance under this Section is increased by virtue of regulations made under paragraph (c) of Subsection (2) thereof in respect of service in some other capacity, the allowance shall be paid and borne partly in the manner provided by Subsections (1) and (2) of the Section of this Act relating to the expenses of Government Departments and partly in the manner in which a pension payable wholly in respect of service in that other capacity would have been paid and borne, in such proportions as may be determined by the Treasury regard being had to the relative length of service and rate of remuneration in each capacity.

(5) In this Section the expression 'pension ' includes any superannuation or other retiring allowance or gratuity and the expression ' pensionable ' shall be construed accordingly."

Mr. J. Griffiths

I beg to move, "That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment."

This brings the provisions in respect of the Commissioners in this Bill into line with those of the National Insurance Bill, which have been agreed.