Powers of re- of c. 34. c. 34. ante. Produce of the Consolidated Fund arising in Ireland, in such Manner and under such Regulations as the Lord Lieutenant, or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland, shall from time to time, order, direct and appoint. IV. And be it further enacted, That all the Powers, Authorities, Clauses, Rules, Regulations, Conditions and Provisions, Penalties and Forfeitures, contained in the said hereinbefore recited Acts of the Fifty seventh and Fifty eighth Years of His late Majesty's Reign, and of the First Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, or any or either of them, with respect to the Appointment and Removal and Duty of Commissioners under the said recited Acts or either of them, or with respect to the Advance of any Sum or Sums of Money in Ireland, for any of the Purposes in the said recited Acts, or any or either of them mentioned and specified; or with respect to the Repayment of any Sum or Sums of Money by any Person or Persons, or in any manner relating to such Sum or Sums of Money, or any Certificate or Receipt respecting the same, or any Interest or Instalment thereof; or to any Persons to whom such Sum or Sums shall be advanced, or to the Sureties of, or the Securities to be given by any such Person or Persons, shall extend, and be deemed and construed, to extend, and shall be applied and put in execution with respect to the advancing, applying, securing and repaying any Sum or Sums of Money under the Provisions of this Act; and any such Sum or Sums of Money may be advanced for any of the Purposes mentioned and specified in the said recited Acts, or either of them, or in this Act; and all Persons who at the Time of the passing of this Act, shall be Commissioners for the Execution of the Purposes of the said recited Acts or either of them, shall be Commissioners for the Execution of the said recited Acts and this Act, and shall and may be removed from such Commission, and other Persons may be appointed to be Commissioners in their stead; and that in all cases where any Sum or Sums of Money shall be advanced under the Provisions of this Act, either for the carrying on any Public or Private Work, or for the Payment of any Interest or Premium on any Money advanced by Individuals for any such Works, all the Powers and Authorities contained in an Act, made in this present Session of Parliament, intituled An Act for the Employment of the Poor in certain Districts in Ireland, with respect to the Purchase of Lands, Grounds, Houses or Hereditaments, for the Purposes of that Act, by Persons to be named and appointed for the Purpose by the Lord Lieutenant, or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland, shall extend, and be deemed and construed to extend, and shall be applied and put in Execution with respect to the Purchase of any Lands, Grounds, Houses or Hereditaments, requisite for the Purposes of this Act, and for the carrying on or completing of any Works for which any Sum or Sums of Money shall be advanced, or any Interest or Premium shall be allowed, under the Authority of this Act, in like manner to all Intents and Purposes, as if the said Powers, Authorities, Clauses, Rules, Regulations, Conditions and Provisions of the said recited Acts respectively, were re-enacted and repeated in this Act, to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever; and the said recited Acts and this Act shall be construed together as one Act, so far as the same are compati ble vance of Delay. c. 34. ante, to extend to Cities and ble or consistent with each other, except only so far as the said first recited Acts are expressly altered or repealed by each other, or by this Act, and as if the Sum of Two hundred and fifty thousand Pounds, authorized to be advanced by this Act, had been authorized to be advanced by the first recited Acts, or either of them, in addition to the Sum of Two hundred and fifty thousand Pounds mentioned in the said first recited Act, of the Fifty seventh Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty King George the Third. V. And be it further enacted, That when and as soon as the On Order of Lord Lieutenant, or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland, Lord Lieuteshall have given or made any Order or Orders pursuant to the nant for AdProvisions of this Act, that any Sum of Money shall be advanced Money, on for any Public or Private Work, or that any Interest or Premium Payment of shall be paid and allowed upon any Sum advanced by any Person Interest, Works or Persons towards any such Work, it shall and may be lawful for to be proceeded the Person or Persons, or Company, Corporation or Trustees, in on without whose favour any such Order or Orders shall be made, to proceed without Delay to the Execution and Completion of the Work in respect of which such Order or Orders shall have been made; and all the Powers and Provisions of this Act and the several Towns. Acts hereinbefore mentioned, shall be applied to the carrying on and completing of such Work accordingly; and that the said recited Act of this present Session of Parliament, for the Employment of the Poor in certain Districts in Ireland, and all Matters therein contained relating to Counties at large, shall extend and be construed to extend to Counties of Cities and Counties of Towns in Ireland, for the Purposes of the said recited Act and this Act; and that for the summoning or returning of any Jury or Juries for the ascertaining the Value of any Land, Ground, Tenements or Hereditaments requisite to be purchased for the Purposes of the said recited Act or this Act, it shall and may be lawful for the Person or Persons appointed by the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland, for the Purposes of the said Summoning last recited Act, to issue his or their Warrant or Warrants to the Juries accordSheriff of any County, County of a City or County of a Town in Ire- ingly. land, thereby commanding and requiring such Sheriff to impannel, summon and return an indifferent Jury of Twenty four Persons to appear before the Person or Persons so appointed as aforesaid, at such Time and Place as in such Warrant shall be specified; and such Sheriff or his Deputy or Deputies, shall impannel, summon and return that number accordingly, out of whom or of such of them as shall appear upon such Summons, the Person or Persons so appointed as aforesaid shall swear or cause to be sworn Twelve to be the Jury for the Purposes of the said Act, or in default of any of them, other honest or indifferent Men of the Standers by, in Manner and under the Regulations in the said Act mentioned and contained, and as if the same were repeated and re-enacted in this Act, except only as the same are altered by this Act. САР. 50 G.3. c.117. The Superannuation Allow ances and the Periods of Ser vice after which the same may be granted, shall be as herein mentioned, in stead of those granted by recited Act. An Act to amend an Act, passed in the Fiftieth Year of His WHEREAS an Act passed in the Fiftieth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled 'An Act to direct that Accounts of Increase and Diminution of 'Public Salaries, Pensions and Allowances, should be annually laid before Parliament, and to regulate and control the granting and paying of such Salaries, Pensions and Allowances: And 'Whereas it is expedient that the Superannuations allowed to be granted by the said recited Act should in certain cases be re'duced, and that further Regulations should be made in relation thereto, and that a Fund should be raised towards the Payment of such Superannuation Allowances, by Deduction from the Salaries and Emoluments of the Persons holding Situations entitling them to have such Allowances granted to them; and it is 'expedient and necessary for carrying into Execution the Purposes aforesaid that the said recited Act, passed in the Fiftieth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty, should be amended, as far as respects such Superannuation Allowances:' May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted; And be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and twenty two, in lieu and instead of the several Proportions of Salaries and Emoluments, which under the Provisions of the said recited Act are authorized to be granted as Superannuation Allowances, after the respective Periods of Service therein specified, the Proportions of such Salaries and Emoluments, and the respective Periods of Service after which the same may be granted as Superannuation Allowances shall, after the said Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and twenty two, with such Exception only as hereinafter is authorized and directed, be as follows; that is to say, to any Officer or Person who shall have served for Ten Years and upwards, and not exceeding Fifteen Years, any annual Allowance, not exceeding in Amount Four twelfths of the annual Salary and Emoluments of his Office or Employment; for Fifteen Years and upwards, and not exceeding Twenty Years, any such annual Allowance, not exceed ing in Amount Five twelfths of the annual Salary and Emoluments of his Office or Employment; for Twenty Years and upwards, and not exceeding Twenty five Years, any annual Allowance not exceeding in Amount Six twelfths of such Salary and Emoluments; for Twenty five Years and upwards, and not exceeding Thirty Years, any annual Allowance not exceeding in Amount Seven twelfths of such Salary and Emoluments; for Thirty Years and upwards, and not exceeding Thirty five Years, Eight twelfths of such such Salary and Emoluments; for Thirty five Years and upwards, and not exceeding Forty Years, Nine twelfths of such Salary and Emoluments; for Forty Years and upwards, and not exceeding Forty five Years, Ten twelfths of such Salary and Emoluments; for Forty five Years and upwards, and not exceeding Fifty Years, Eleven twelfths of such Salary and Emoluments; and to any Officer or Person who shall have served for Fifty Years and upwards, any annual Allowance not exceeding the net Amount of the Salary and Emoluments of his Office or Employment, after making a Deduction therefrom equal in Amount to the Deduction or Contribution to which such last mentioned Salary and Emoluments is or are made liable for the Purpose of creating a Superannuation Fund under the Provisions of this Act; and all such Salaries and Emoluments shall, for the Purpose of estimating the Amounts of Superannuation Allowances to be granted in respect thereof, be calculated upon the Amount of the pecuniary Emoluments made chargeable with the respective Deductions and Payments which are by this Act required to be made for the creating the Superannuation Fund to be formed under the Provisions thereof. II. Provided always, and be it enacted, That no Person to be hereafter superannuated under the Provisions of this Act shall claim or be allowed the Benefit of any Period of Service after the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and twenty two, except for the Period during which such Person may have contributed to the Fund created and established by this Act, unless the Salary received by such Person, during the Period for which he did not contribute, was not of an Amount which would, under the Terms of this Act, have subjected it to any Contribution. How far Persons superannuated allowed Service after July 5, 1822. Benefit of granted only by Treasury. III. And be it further enacted, That from and after the Fifth SuperannuDay of July One thousand eight hundred and twenty two, no ations, (excepSuperannuation Allowance shall be granted by any Public De- tion) to be partment whatever, other than under the Authority of an Order of His Majesty in Council, or by the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or any Three or more of them; any thing in the said recited Act of the Fiftieth Year aforesaid to the contrary notwithstanding. IV. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That it shall not be lawful to grant any such Superannuation Allowance to any Officer who shall be under Sixty five Years of Age, unless upon Certificates from the Heads of the Department to which any such Officer shall belong, and from Two Medical Practitioners, that he is incapable, from Infirmity of Mind or Body, to discharge the Duties of his Situation, nor unless he shall have discharged the Duties of his Situation with Diligence and Fidelity, to the Satisfaction of the Head Officers or Head Officer of the Office or Department to which he shall belong, to be certified by any Two of such Head Officers (if there shall be more than One) or by such Head Officer (if only One), and in case the Person claiming any such Superannuation Allowance shall himself be One of the Head Officers, or the Head Officer, then such Superannuation Allowance shall not be granted, unless he shall have discharged the Duties of his Situation with Diligence Conditions of Allowances for Age and Infirmity. Allowances may be made Diligence and Fidelity, to the Satisfaction of the Commissioners of the Admiralty (if such Head Officer or Person shall hold any Office or Situation under the Controul of that Department), and in all other Cases to the Satisfaction of the Commissioners of the Treasury; and the said Commissioners of the Admiralty and Treasury respectively shall express such Satisfaction in their Minute recommending or directing the Grant of any such Superannuation Allowance. V. And be it further enacted, That in any Case in which it shall appear to the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, that any in special Cases. Special Circumstances give to any Officer a just Claim to any Amount of Superannuation Allowance not authorized by this Act, or exceeding the Allowance specified therein, with reference to the actual Length of Service of such Officer, it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, and they or any Three or more of them are hereby empowered and authorized, to grant or to give Authority for the granting of any special SuSpecial Cases to perannuation: Provided always, that the Grounds upon which any such special Superannuation shall be granted or authorized, shall be stated in the Grant thereof, or the Authority for granting the same, and also entered in the Minutes of the Treasury, and shall also be laid before Parliament, within One Month after the Fifth Day of January in each Year, if Parliament shall be then sitting, or if Parliament shall not then be sitting, then within One Month after the then next Meeting of Parliament. be laid before Parliament. Amount of mentioned. Act to extend VI. And be it further enacted, Than an Account shall be made Superannuation up to the Fifth Day of January in each Year, specifying the total Allowances Amount of Superannuation Allowances payable under the Promade up yearly visions of this Act in each Department, on the Fifth Day of in each Department, as herein. January in the preceding Year, the Name of every Person receiving such Allowance who may have died in the Course of the Year, together with the annual Amount of the Allowance which was payable to such Person, and also the Name of every Person to whom a Superannuation Allowance may have been granted in the Course of the Year, and the annual Amount of such Allowance; and such Account shall be laid before Parliament on or before the Twenty fifth Day of March in each Year, if Parliament shall be then sitting, or if Parliament shall not be then sitting, then within One Month after the then next Sitting of Parliament. VII. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall extend to all such Civil Office and Departments in the United Kingdom as are set forth and enumerated in the Schedule to this Act annexed, with such Exceptions as are specified in the said Schedule: Provided always, that it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, by any Order or Warrant signed by the said Commissioners, or any Three or more of them, to add to the List of Offices and Departments enumerated in the Schedule to this Act, any other Offices or Departments which now exist or which may hereafter be created or established, and to place the same, and the Officers and Persons belonging thereto or employed therein, under the Provisions of this Act; provided that in every such case the Reasons for adding any such Office or Department shall be stated in such Order or Warrant, and a Copy of every such Order or Warrant shall be laid before Parliament to Offices enu- Account of such additional Of fices laid before Parliament. |