An Act to extend the powers conferred by certain enactments relating to superannuation so as to include power to grant the like superannuation benefits, and to permit the like allocation of superannuation benefits to spouses and dependants, as could be granted or permitted in respect of persons in the Civil Service of the State; to provide for distribution without probate of sums not exceeding one hundred pounds due to persons to whom those enactments apply or their legal personal representatives; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.
[30th March 1938]
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Act excluded by Church Commissioners Measure 1947 (No. 2), s. 17(1)
Textual Amendments
F1S. 1 and Sch. Pt. II repealed by Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11), s. 29, Sch. 8
(1)Where, on the death of a person to whom any of the enactments mentioned in the first column of Part I of the Schedule to this Act applies, any sum not exceeding [F2£1, 500] is due to that person or his legal personal representatives in respect of salary, wages or superannuation benefits, then, subject to any regulations made by the Treasury, probate or other proof of the title of the legal personal representatives may be dispensed with, and the said sum may be paid or distributed to or among the persons appearing to the appropriate authority to be beneficially entitled to the personal estate of the deceased person, or to or among any one or more of those persons, or, in the case of the illegitimacy of the deceased person or any of his children, to or among such persons as the appropriate authority may think fit, and the appropriate authority or other person responsible for the payment of any such sum shall be discharged from all liability in respect of any such payment or distribution.
(2)For the purposes of this section, the expression “the appropriate authority” means, in relation to any of the said enactments, the person or body specified in relation to that enactment in the third column of Part I of the Schedule to this Act.
Textual Amendments
F2Words substituted by virtue of Administration of Estates (Small Payments) Act 1965 (c. 32), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. I and S.I. 1975/1137, art. 3(a)
(1)This Act may be cited as the Superannuation (Various Services) Act 1938.
(2)In this Act the expression “superannuation benefits” includes a superannuation allowance, additional allowance, annual allowance, retiring allowance, compensation allowance, gratuity, pension, compensation and annuity.
Sections 1 and 2.
| Appropriate Authority. | ||
|---|---|---|
| Enactment. | For the purposes of section one of this Act. | For the purposes of section two of this Act. |
| The M1Caledonian and Crinan Canals Amendment Act 1860, section thirty-two, as amended by and in pursuance of section two and subsection (2) of section thirty of the M2Ministry of Transport Act 1919. | The Minister of Transport. | The Minister of Transport. |
| . . . F3 | . . . F3 | . . . F3 |
| [F4The M3Merchant Shipping (Mercantile Marine Fund) Act 1898, section 1A, as inserted by section 17 of the M4Superannuation Act 1972.] | The Minister of Transport. | A general lighthouse authority. |
| . . . F5 | . . . F5 | . . . F5 |
| The M5Development and Road Improvements Funds Act 1910, section two, subsection (2). | The Development Commissioners. | The Development Commissioners. |
| The M6Electricity (Supply) Act 1919, section one, subsection (7), as amended by and in pursuance of subsection (1) of section thirty-nine of that Act and by section fifty of, and the Sixth Schedule to, the M7Electricity (Supply) Act 1926. | The Minister of Transport. | The Electricity Commissioners |
| . . . F6 | . . . F6 | . . . F6 |
| [F7The M8Transport Act 1962, tenth Schedule, paragraph 8.] | The Minister of Transport. | The Minister of Transport |
| The M9Assessor of Public Undertakings (Scotland) Act 1934, section two. | The Secretary of State. | The Secretary of State. |
Textual Amendments
F3Entry repealed by Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1967 (c. 28), s. 15(8)(e)
F4Words substituted by Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11), Sch. 6 para. 17
F5Entry repealed by Superannuation (Amendment) Act 1965 (c. 10), Sch. 4 Pt. II
F6Entries repealed by Forestry Act 1967 (c. 10), Sch. 7 Pt. I
F7Words substituted by virtue of Transport Act 1962 (c. 46), Sch. 10 para. 8(1)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C2The text of this entry in Sch. Pt. I , now spent , is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and, except as specified, does not reflect the amendments or repeals that may have been made prior to 1.2.1991
Marginal Citations
Textual Amendments
F8S. 1 and Sch. Pt. II repealed by Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11), s. 29, Sch. 8