The Commonwealth Telegraphs (Cable and Wireless Ltd. Pension) Regulations 1968

Statutory Instruments

1968 No. 1979

COMMONWEALTH TELEGRAPHS

The Commonwealth Telegraphs (Cable and Wireless Ltd. Pension) Regulations 1968

Made

12th December 1968

Laid before Parliament

19th December 1968

Coming into Operation

1st January 1969

I, The Right Honourable John Thomson Stonehouse, M.P., Her Majesty's Postmaster General, with the consent of the Minister for the Civil Service(1), by virtue of the powers vested in me by section 6 of the Commonwealth Telegraphs Act 1949 as amended by section 28 of the Post Office Act 1961 and of all other powers enabling me in this behalf, do hereby make the following regulations:

1.—(1) These regulations shall be read as one with the Commonwealth Telegraphs (Cable and Wireless Ltd. Pension) Regulations 1955(2) and the Commonwealth Telegraphs (Cable and Wireless Ltd. Pension) Regulations 1962(3).

(2) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply for the interpretation of these regulations as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.

2.  The following shall be substituted for regulation 2(1)(c) of the Commonwealth Telegraphs (Cable and Wireless Ltd. Pension) Regulations 1962 (which regulation provides for Cable and Wireless Ltd. to establish a widows' pension scheme):

“(c) dies, whether prior to or after his being retired from pensionable service in the Post Office.”

3.  These regulations may be cited as the Commonwealth Telegraphs (Cable and Wireless Ltd. Pension) Regulations 1968 and shall come into operation on the 1st day January 1969.

John Stonehouse

Her Majesty's Postmaster General

Dated 11th December 1968

Consent of the Minister for the Civil Service given under his Official Seal 12th December 1968.

L.S.

J. E. Herbecq

Authorised by the Minister for the Civil Service

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The Commonwealth Telegraph (Cable and Wireless Ltd. Pension) Regulations 1962 made provision for Cable and Wireless Ltd. to establish an approved pension scheme for widows or children of certain former male employees of the Company who became employed in the Post Office as a result of the transfer of the United Kingdom assets of the Company into public ownership on the 1st September 1950 and who die prior to retirement from pensionable service in the Post Office. These regulations amend the 1962 regulations so as to enable a pension to be paid to the widow or children whether the employee dies prior to or after his retirement.

(1)

See S.I. 1968/1656(1968 III, p. 4485)

(2)

(1955 I, p. 500).

(3)

(1962 I, p. 193).