(1)The powers of the appropriate authority, under any of the enactments mentioned in the first column of Parts I and II of the Schedule to this Act (hereafter in this section referred to as " the scheduled enactments "), shall, subject to the provisions of this section, extend, and be deemed always to have extended, so as to include power—
(a)to grant the like superannuation benefits to the persons to whom that enactment applies or their legal personal representatives, widows or dependants; and
(b)to permit the like allocation of superannuation benefits to spouses and dependants;
as could be, or could have been, granted or permitted in respect of persons in the Civil Service of the State under the enactments, rules, regulations and warrants for the time being in force in relation to the last-mentioned persons:
Provided that nothing in this subsection shall be taken to confer power to permit such an allocation as aforesaid after the date of the commencement of this Act in the case of a person who retired from service before that date.
(2)Where, by any of the scheduled enactments, the power of the appropriate authority thereunder to grant, pay or determine superannuation benefits is required to be exercised subject to the approval or sanction of the Treasury or the Board of Trade, the exercise of the powers conferred on that authority by the foregoing subsection shall be subject to the like approval or sanction.
(3)Where, by any of the scheduled enactments, the power of the appropriate authority thereunder to pay or grant superannuation benefits is required to be exercised under a scheme approved by the Treasury or in accordance with regulations, the powers conferred on that authority by subsection (1) of this section shall be exercised in like manner, and the power of the authority to make a scheme or regulations shall be extended accordingly.
(4)Any power of the Treasury under any of the scheduled enactments to determine that allowances and gratuities awarded under that enactment shall be paid wholly or partly out of a particular fund, shall extend to any sums allocated in pursuance of this section to the spouse or dependants of a person to whom the said enactment applies.
(5)The powers conferred by this section shall be in addition to, and not in derogation of, any existing power exercisable under any of the scheduled enactments or otherwise.
(6)Any amount by which the sums payable under any enactment out of moneys provided by Parliament are increased by reason of the provisions of this section shall be defrayed out of moneys so provided.
(7)For the purposes of this section the expression " the appropriate authority " means, in relation to any of the scheduled enactments, the person or body specified in relation to that enactment in the second column of Part I or Part II of the Schedule to this Act.
(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 one hundred pounds 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.
(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.