HL Deb 12 July 1921 vol 45 cc1045-50

Amendments reported (according to Order).

THE EARL OF ONSLOW

All the Amendments on the Paper in my name are drafting.

THE LORD CHANCELLOR

As all the Amendments are drafting, unless any noble Lord desires to raise any particular point, it may be more convenient that they should be put en bloc.

Clause 5 (Scales of pensions, allowances, and gratuities):

Amendment moved— Clause 5, page 4, line 36, after (" the ") insert (" general ").—(The Earl of Onslow.)

On Question, Amendment agreed to.

Clause 7 (Service to be reckoned for pension):

Amendment moved— Clause 7, page 5, line 30, leave out (" suspended") and insert (" absent ").—(The Earl of Onslow.)

On Question, Amendment agreed to.

Clause 8 (Continuous service in two or more forces):

Amendments moved—

Clause 8, page 6, line 22, after (" his ") insert (" death or ")

Clause 8, line 38, leave out (" subsection ") and insert (" section ")—(The Earl of Onslow.)

On Question, Amendments agreed to.

Clause 9 (Discontinuous service in one or more forces):

Amendments moved—

Clause 9, page 7, line 8, after (" force ") insert (" who ")

Clause 9, line 9, leave out (" and ")—(The Earl of Onslow.)

On Question, Amendments agreed to.

Clause 12 (Proof of incapacity for duty, liability to serve again, and revision of pension):

Amendments moved—

Clause 12, page 9, line 29, leave out (" less ") and insert (" lower ")

Clause 12, lines 34 and 35, leave out (" in the case of pensions for non-accidental injuries ") and insert (" where the pension was granted in respect of a non-accidental injury ").

Clause 12, page 10, lines 14 and 15, leave out (" that he is not disabled ") and insert (" as to whether he is incapacitated for the performance of duty ").—(The Earl of Onslow.)

On Question, Amendments agreed to.

Clause 14:

Assignment of pensions and regulations as to payment of pensions, etc.

14. The following provisions shall have effect with respect to every pension, allowance, and gratuity (in this section referred to as a grant) payable by the police authority to any person (in this section referred to as the pensioner):—

(6) On the death of a pensioner to whom a sum not exceeding one hundred pounds is due on account of a grant, then, if the police authority so direct, probate or other proof of the title of the personal representative of the deceased may be dispensed with, and the sum may be paid or distributed to or among the persons appearing to the police authority to be beneficially entitled to the personal estate of the deceased pensioner or to or among any one or more of those persons, or in the case of the illegitimacy of the deceased pensioner, to or among such persons as the police authority may think fit, and the police authority, and any officer of the police authority making the payment, shall be discharged from all liability in respect of any such payment or distribution:

THE EARL OF ONSLOW moved, at the end of subsection (6), to insert the following new subsection: (7) Every grant which is a pension or allowance shall be paid, after the first instalment, in advance, except in the case of refusal to quit police quarters or any premises owned or rented by or on behalf of the police authority or the Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District, or to give up any equipment., or to make any payments due to the police authority or the Receiver, but where a person dies whilst in receipt of a grant paid in advance no return shall be required of any payments which have been made in respect of any period after his death.

Amendment moved— Clause 14, page 12, line 14, at end insert the said new subsection.—(The Earl of Onslow.)

On Question, Amendment agreed to.

Clause 19:

Rateable Deductions.

Rateable deduction from pay.

19. The police authority of every police force shall deduct from the pay of every member of the force—

  1. (a) sums at the rate of two and a half per cent. per annum on his pay (in this Act referred to as rateable deductions); and
  2. (b) such stoppages during sickness, and such fines for misconduct., as may be provided by any regulations affecting the force.

THE EARL OF ONSLOW moved to omit paragraph (b).

Amendment moved— Clause 19, page 15, lines 6 to 9, leave out from (" deductions ") to the end of the clause. —(The Earl of Onslow.)

On Question. Amendment agreed to.

Clause 22 (Payment of pensions out of police fund):

Amendment moved— Clause 22, page 17, line 11, leave out (" force ") and insert (" authority ").—(The Earl of Onslow.)

On Question, Amendment agreed to.

Clause 23 (Power for police authorities to make regulations).

Amendments moved—

Clause 23, page 17, lines 31 and 32, leave out paragraph (b).

Clause 23, page 17, line 39 to line 8 on page 18, leave out subsection (2).—(The Earl of Onslow.)

On Question, Amendments agreed to.

Clause 27:

Application to first police reservists

27. Where a member of the first class of the police reserve is called up for active service with a police force, or where an ex-member of a police force, whether a pensioner or not, joins a force for service in emergency—

  1. (a) If he is incapacitated for the performance of his duty by infirmity of mind or body occasioned by an injury received in the execution of his duty without his own default, or dies as the result of such injury, the same special pension to himself or his widow and allowances to his children shall be payable as arc payable under this Act in the case of other members of a police force in similar circumstances, hut based on his current rate of pay and Ids service with the force since he was last called to or joined the force as aforesaid;
  2. (b) A special pension shall in such case be payable in addition to his ordinary pension (if any), but no increase shall be made in such ordinary pension in respect of service to which this section relates;
  3. (c)If the service to which this section relates is with a police force other than that in which he previously served, then, if he becomes entitled to a special pension, the whole of such pension shall be payable by the police authority of the force in which he was serving when injured, and if a special pension becomes payable to his widow or allowances to his children, the amount of an ordinary widow's pension shall be payable by the police authority of the force in which he previously served, and the balance of the special pension to the widow and any allowances to the children shall be paid by the police authority of the force in which he was serving when he was injured.

Amendments moved—

Clause 27, page 20, line 3, after (" or ") insert (" pension to "), and after (" allowances ") insert (" or gratuities ")

Clause 27, page 20, line 4, after (" children ") insert (" or dependants ")

Clause 27, page 20, line 10, at end insert (" to a member of a police force ").—(The Earl of Onslow.)

On Question, Amendments agreed to.

THE EARL OF ONSLOW moved, in paragraph (c), before "previously served," to insert "last," and to omit all words after previously served, then "in order to insert:" if a pension becomes payable to his widow, the amount of a widow's ordinary pension shall, so long as the pension continues, be payable by the police authority of the force in which he previously served to the police authority of the force in which he was serving when injured, but any other pension, allowance or gratuity payable in respect of service in the force in which he, was serving when injured shall be paid wholly by the police authority of that force."

Amendment moved— Clause 27, line 17, after the first. (" he ") insert (" last "), and leave out from (" then ") to the end of the clause and insert the said words. —(The Earl of Onslow.)

On Question, Amendment agreed to.

Clause 28 (Application to police women):

Amendments moved—

Clause 28, page 20, line 43, leave out (" is ") and insert (" are ")

Clause 28, page 21, lines 6 and 7, leave out (" since the commencement of her ") and insert ("during such ")—.(The Earl of Onslow.)

On Question, Amendments agreed to.

Clause 29 (Application to existing members of police forces and existing pensions):

Amendments moved—

Clause 29, page 21, line 18, leave out (" passing ") and insert (" commencement ")

Clause 29, line 3, after (" shall ") insert (" as from the commencement of this Act be treated ")

Clause 29, page.21 line 5, leave out (" be treated ")

Clause 29, page 22, line 9, leave out (" eleven to seventeen ") and insert ('' twelve to eighteen ")

Clause 29, line 10, leave out (" twenty-one and twenty-two ") and insert (" twenty-two and twenty-three ")— (The Earl of Onslow.)

On Question, Amendments agreed to.

Clause 34 (Application to Scotland and Ireland).:

Amendments moved—

Clause 34, page 25, line 12, leave out (" &c.") and insert (" gratuity or allowance ")

Clause 34, line 37, leave out (" passing ") and insert (" commencement ").— (The Earl of Onslow.)

On Question, Amendments agreed to.

First Schedule (Pension Sale)

Amendments moved—

First, Schedule, page 99, line 7, beginning insert (" Scale ")

First, Schedule, page 99, line 15, at beginning insert ("Scale")

First, Schedule, page 99, line 31, leave out the first (" his ") and insert (" her husband's ")

First, Schedule, page 99, line 38, leave out (" had ") and insert (" have ")

page 30, line 30, leave out (" an amount ") and insert (" of such amount as the police authority 'nay deternine ")

page 30, line 32, after (" service ") insert (" of the member of the force or pensioner ")

First, Schedule, page 30, line 38, leave out (" one half of ")

page 31, line 4, after (" pension ") insert (" or allowance ")

page 31, line 21, at the beginning insert (" subject to the provisions of section twenty-seven of this Act. ")

page 31, line 23, leave out (" left the police force ") and insert (" retired on pension ").—(The Earl of Onslow.)

On Question, Amendments agreed to.