Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981

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8 (1) The Commission shall appoint—

(a) with the approval of the Secretary of State, a chief officer and

(b) such number of other employees as they may with the approval of the Secretary of State and the Minister determine.

(2) The Commission shall pay to their employees such remuneration and allowances as they may with the approval of the Secretary of State and the Minister determine.

(3) In the case of any person to be employed by them on and after the appointed day who immediately before that day was a civil servant, the Commission shall ensure that, so long as he is engaged in duties reasonably comparable to those in which he was engaged immediately before the coming into force of this Schedule, the terms and conditions of his employment, taken as a whole, are not less favourable than those which he then enjoyed.

(4) In relation to any person who—

(a) is a civil servant before the appointed day; and

(b) is as from that day employed by the Commission,

[F1 Chapter I of Part XIV of the Employment Rights Act 1996] shall have effect as if his service as a civil servant had been employment under the Commission.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Sch. 13 para. 8(4) substituted (22.8.1996) by 1996 c. 18, ss. 240, 243, Sch. 1 para. 16

9 (1) The Commission shall in the case of such of their employees as they may with the approval of the Secretary of State and the Minister determine,—

(a) pay such pension to or in respect of them;

(b) make such payments towards the provision of such pensions; or

(c) provide and maintain such schemes (whether contributory or not) for the payment of such pensions,

as they may with the approval of the Secretary of State and the Minister determine.

(2) In this paragraph any reference to the payment of pensions to or in respect of the Commission’s employees includes a reference to the payment of pensions by way of compensation to or in respect of any of the Commission’s employees who suffer loss of office or employment or loss or diminution of emoluments.

10 (1) Employment with the Commission shall be included among the kinds of employment to which a superannuation scheme under section 1 of the M1 Superannuation Act 1972 can apply, and accordingly in Schedule 1 to that Act (in which those kinds of employment are listed) the words “Countryside Commission” shall be inserted after the words “Monopolies Commission”.

(2) The Commission shall pay to the Minister at such times in each financial year as may be determined by the Minister, subject to any directions of the Treasury, sums of such amounts as he may so determine for the purposes of this paragraph as being equivalent to the increase during the year of such liabilities of his under the Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme as are attributable to the provision of pensions to or in respect of persons who are, or have been, in the service of the Commission in so far as that increase results from the service of those persons during that financial year and to the expense to be incurred in administering those pensions.

Marginal Citations

M1 1972 c. 11.