Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964

4 (1) Where a joint board established under section 5 of this Act is dissolved, and at any time before its dissolution a gratuity by way of periodical payments or an annuity—

(a) was granted to any person by the board on his ceasing to be employed by the board, or

(b) was granted to the widow or any other dependant of a person who died while in the employment of the board, or who died during the currency of such a gratuity granted to him as mentioned in paragraph (a) above,

and, if the board had not been dissolved at that time, one or more payments in respect of that gratuity would under the terms of the grant have fallen to be made by the board after that time (whether the board would have been obliged to make those payments or not), those payments shall be made by such authority (being one of the authorities which on the dissolution of the board again become library authorities) as the Secretary of State may determine.

(2) Without prejudice to sub-paragraph (1) above, where for the purposes of any pensions provision the board, if it had not been dissolved, would at any time after the date on which it is dissolved have been the employing authority or former employing authority in relation to—

(a) a person who before that time died while in the employment of the board, or otherwise ceased to be employed by the board; or

(b) the widow or any other dependant of such a person,

such authority (being one of the authorities which on the dissolution of the board again become library authorities) as the Secretary of State may determine shall be treated as being at that time the employing authority or former employing authority for those purposes in relation to that person, or to that person's widow or other dependant, as the case may be.