Superannuation (Various Services) Act 1938

1938 CHAPTER 13 1 and 2 Geo 6

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)

C1 Act excluded by Church Commissioners Measure 1947 (No. 2), s. 17(1)

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Textual Amendments

F1 S. 1 and Sch. Pt. II repealed by Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11), s. 29, Sch. 8

2 Distribution of money not exceeding one hundred pounds without probate. U.K.

(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

F2 Words 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)

3 Short title and interpretation. U.K.

(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.

SCHEDULE U.K. Enactments extended and appropriate authority thereunder

Part I U.K. Enactments to which sections one and two apply

	Appropriate Authority.
Enactment.	[F3 For the purposes of section one of this Act.]	For the purposes of section two of this Act.
The M1 Caledonian 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 M2 Ministry of Transport Act 1919.	F3 ...	The Minister of Transport.
F4 ...	F4 ...	F4 ...
[F5 The [F6 Merchant Shipping Act 1995, section 214]]	F3 ...	X1 A general lighthouse authority.
F7 ...	F7 ...	F7 ...
F8 ...	F3 ...	F8 ...
F8 ...	F3 ...	F8 ...
F9 ...	F9 ...	F9 ...
[F10 The M3 Transport Act 1962, tenth Schedule, paragraph 8.]	F3 ...	The Minister of Transport
F11 ...	F11 ...	F11 ...

Editorial Information

X1 The 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

Textual Amendments

F3 Sch. Pt I, the column specifying the appropriate authority for the purposes of section 1, repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. IX Group 1.

F4 Entry repealed by Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1967 (c. 28), s. 15(8)(e)

F5 Words substituted by Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11), Sch. 6 para. 17

F6 Words in Sch. Pt. I substituted (1.1.1996) by 1995 c. 21, ss. 312(1), 314, Sch. 13 para. 17

F7 Entry repealed by Superannuation (Amendment) Act 1965 (c. 10), Sch. 4 Pt. II

F8 Entries in Sch. Pt. I repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), Sch. 1 Pt. 11

F9 Entries repealed by Forestry Act 1967 (c. 10), Sch. 7 Pt. I

F10 Words substituted by virtue of Transport Act 1962 (c. 46), Sch. 10 para. 8(1)

F11 Entry relating to Assessor of Public Undertakings (Scotland) Act 1934 repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. IX Group 1.

Marginal Citations

M1 1860 c. 46.

M2 1919 c. 50.

M3 1962 c. 46.

PART II U.K. . . . F12

Textual Amendments

F12 S. 1 and Sch. Pt. II repealed by Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11), s. 29, Sch. 8