An Act to provide for contributory pension schemes in respect of persons employed at certain agricultural institutions and colleges financed wholly or partly out of public funds.
[2nd March, 1961]
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3
Commencement Information
I1Act wholly in force at Royal Assent
(1)F1. . . The Secretary of State and the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food may each make a scheme or schemes, providing for the payment by the authority who made the scheme, in such circumstances as may be specified by the scheme, of pensions, gratuities and other benefits to and in respect of persons, or any class or description of persons, employed—
F2(a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(b)in the case of a scheme made by the Secretary of State, at an agricultural research institution or agricultural college in Scotland which, in the opinion of the Secretary of State, is wholly or mainly maintained by grants made by him;
(c)in the case of a scheme made by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, at the National Institute of Agricultural Botany;
and a scheme shall provide for the payment of contributions to the said authority by persons so employed who participate in the scheme.
(2) . . . F3 any sums paid by or to the Secretary of State or the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in pursuance of a scheme under this section shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament or, as the case may be, shall be paid into the Exchequer.
F4(3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 1(1) repealed (19.11.1998) by 1998 c. 43, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. X Group 4.
F2S. 1(1)(a) repealed (19.11.1998) by 1998 c. 43, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. X Group 4.
F3Words repealed by Science and Technology Act 1965 (c. 4), Sch. 4
F4S. 1(3) repealed (19.11.1998) by 1998 c. 43, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. X Group 4.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C2Functions of Minister for Science now exercisable by Secretary of State for Education and Science: S.I. 1964/490
C3Function under s. 1(1) transferred and made exercisable concurrently (6.7.1992) by S.I. 1992/1296, arts. 2(4), 3.
(1)This Act may be cited as the Agricultural Research etc. (Pensions) Act, 1961, F5. . ..
(2)This Act does not extend to Northern Ireland.
Textual Amendments
F5Words in s. 2(1) repealed (19.11.1998) by 1998 c. 43, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. X Group 4.