Transport Act 1962

Remuneration and expenses

8 (1) There shall be paid to the members of the tribunal, to any person appointed under paragraph 5 of this Schedule, to any person appointed from the special panel and to the clerk, officers and servants of the tribunal such remuneration (including, in the case of the clerk, officers and servants, superannuation allowances or gratuities on retirement) as the Minister, with the approval of the Treasury, may determine, and for the reference in Part I of the Schedule to the Superannuation (Various Services) Act, 1938, to subsection (1) of section twenty-one of the Railways Act, 1921, there shall be substituted a reference to this paragraph.

(2) There may be granted to the president such a superannuation allowance as may under subsection (1) of section one hundred and twenty-eight of the Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act, 1925, be granted to a person holding one of the offices specified in Part I of the Third Schedule to that Act.

(3) For the purpose of computing a superannuation allowance granted to the president account shall be taken of any service which is relevant service within the meaning of the Administration of Justice (Pensions) Act, 1950, in any office other than that of president, as well as of service as president, but not of any other service.

(4) Any such superannuation allowance shall be defrayed as pant of the expenses of the tribunal except that if, in computing the superannuation allowance, account is taken under the last foregoing sub-paragraph of any service in an office other than that of president of the tribunal, the allowance shall be defrayed only as to a proportion as part of the expenses of the tribunal, and as to the balance out of money provided by Parliament; and the said proportion shall be determined by the Treasury, regard being had to the relevant length of service and rate of remuneration in the relevant offices.

(5) In subsection (4) of section twenty-one of the Administration of Justice (Pensions) Act, 1950 (which relates to benefits under that Act payable in respect of a president of the tribunal), the reference to the foregoing provisions of that section shall include a reference to this paragraph, and in paragraph 4 of the Third Schedule to that Act, for the reference to subsection (2) of section three of the Chairmen of Traffic Commissioners &c. (Tenure of Office) Act, 1937, there shall be substituted a reference to this paragraph.

9 Any remuneration payable under the last foregoing paragraph and any other expenses of the tribunal shall be paid by the Minister out of money provided by Parliament, but any such expenses except so far as—

(a) they are met out of the payment of fees, and

(b) they may be apportioned by the tribunal to the exercise of the tribunal's jurisdiction under Part IV of the Road Traffic Act, 1960,

shall be repaid on demand to the Minister by the Commission or, after the vesting date, by the Railways Board and the London Board in such proportions as they may agree or as the Minister may in default of agreement determine.