Merchant Shipping Act 1894
Power to grant pensions.
665.—(1) A general lighthouse authority may, with the sanction of the Board of Trade, grant superannuation allowances or compensation to persons whose salaries are paid out of the Mercantile Marine Fund on their discharge or retirement.
(2) No superannuation, allowance or compensation granted under this section to a person shall exceed the proportion of his salary which may be granted to a person in the public civil service under the Acts relating to superannuation allowances or compensation for the time being in force.
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Reference to Mercantile Marine Fund construed as a reference to the General Lighthouse Fund (1.04.1899) by Merchant Shipping (Mercantile Marine Fund) Act 1898 (61 & 62 Geo. 5) c. 44, s. 1(1)(b), (c), commenced as per s. 9(3).
Abolition of Mercantile Marine Fund and constitution of General Lighthouse Fund.
1. (1) ...
(b) All expenses charged on and payable out of the Mercantile Marine Fund, except the expenses relating to lighthouses, buoys, and beacons mentioned in paragraph (i) of section six hundred and seventy-seven of the same Act, and except also any expenses incurred by a general lighthouse authority under section five hundred and thirty-one of the same Act, shall, so far as they are not paid by any private person, be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament:
(c) The said excepted sums shall be accounted for and paid to, and the said excepted expenses shall be charged on and payable out of, a fund which shall be called the General Lighthouse Fund, and references in Part XI. and in sections five hundred and thirty-one and six hundred and seventy-nine of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, to the Mercantile Marine Fund shall be construed as references to the General Lighthouse Fund.
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