HC Deb 16 November 1962 vol 667 c692

Resolution reported, That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to provide for increases or supplements in respect of certain pensions, it is expedient to authorise the payment out of moneys provided by Parliament of any expenditure incurred by a Government department under or by virtue of any provision of the said Act of the present Session—

  1. (a) providing for increases of pensions described in the Schedule to the Pensions (Increase) Act 1959 and certain other pensions, being increases at percentage rates of the annual rates of the pensions after any relevant increase within the meaning of the said Act of 1959, varying by reference to the dates on which the pensions began, or of fixed amounts related to those dates and the age of the persons in receipt of the pensions;
  2. (b) authorising the Secretary for Technical Co-operation to supplement certain pensions payable in respect of service, under the governments of overseas territories and certain pensions payable in respect of service in any of the armed forces of the Crown raised in an overseas territory, not being pensions payable under any warrant or other instrument made by virtue of Her Majesty's prerogative in respect of such forces;
  3. (c) amending the Pensions (India, Pakistan and Burma) Act 1955, so as to enable the said Act of the present Session and previous Pensions (Increase) Acts to be applied to additional Indian Pension Funds;
  4. (d) extending the benefit of increases under the Pensions (Increase) Act 1944, and subsequent Pensions (Increase) Acts to persons undergoing full-time education or training;
  5. (e) authorising the increase under the said Act of the present Session and under previous Pensions (Increase) Acts of certain local government gratuities granted by way of periodical payments or annuities;
  6. (f) enabling the said Act of the present Session and previous Pensions (Increase) Acts to be applied to certain pensions payable in respect of service with the Raw Cotton Commission and in connection with its dissolution;
  7. (g) applying or extending for the purposes of the said Act of the present Session any of the provisions of sections 2 to 6 of the Pensions (Increase) Act 1959;
and any increase attributable to any such provision of the said Act of the present Session in the sums payable out of moneys so provided under any other enactment.

Resolution agreed to.