The Superannuation (Admission to Schedule 1 of the Superannuation Act 1972) Order 1996

Statutory Instruments

1996 No. 608

PENSIONS

The Superannuation (Admission to Schedule 1 of the Superannuation Act 1972) Order 1996

Made

6th March 1996

Laid before Parliament

7th March 1996

Coming into force

27th March 1996

The Minister for the Civil Service, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 1(5) and(8)(a) of the Superannuation Act 1972(1) and now vested in him(2), hereby makes the following Order—

1.  This Order may be cited as the Superannuation (Admission to Schedule 1 of the Superannuation Act 1972) Order 1996 and shall come into force on 27th March 1996.

2.  The office of the Chairman of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board is hereby added to the offices listed in Schedule 1 to the Superannuation Act 1972 with effect from 1st March 1989.

D. L. Willetts

Parliamentary Secretary, Office of Public Service for the Minister for the Civil Service

6th March 1996

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order adds the office of Chairman of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board to the offices listed in Schedule 1 to the Superannuation Act 1972 so that section 1 of that Act (under which the Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme and the Civil Service Compensation Scheme have been made) may apply to it.

Provision for the appointment of the Chairman of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board was made jointly by the Home Secretary and the Secretary of State for Scotland under the terms of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme brought into existence by the exercise of the Royal Prerogative and announced in Parliament on 24th June 1964.

Under the power conferred by section 1(8)(a) of the Superannuation Act 1972 the Order takes effect from 1st March 1989.

(1)

1972 c. 11.

(2)

See article 2(1)(c) of the Transfer of Functions (Minister for the Civil Service and Treasury) Order 1981 (S.I. 1981/1670) and article 3 of the Transfer of Functions (Treasury and Minister for the Civil Service) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/269).