Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1967

1967 CHAPTER 28

An Act to amend the law relating to pensions and other similar payments to or in respect of persons who have been in certain employment, and for connected purposes.

[10th May 1967]

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Textual Amendments

F1 Ss. 1, 2(2)(3), 6, 8, 11(2), 15(5), 16 repealed by Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11), s. 23(1), Schs. 5, 8

2 Minor corrections of Superannuation (Amendment) Act 1965 and Superannuation Act 1965. U.K.

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Textual Amendments

F2 S. 2(1) repealed by Judicial Pensions Act 1981 (c. 20,SIF 71:2), s. 36, Sch. 4

F3 Ss. 1, 2(2)(3), 6, 8, 11(2), 15(5), 16 repealed by Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11), s. 23(1), Schs. 5, 8

3 Effect of pension in respect of public office on remuneration in judicial or related office. U.K.

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Textual Amendments

F4 S. 3 repealed by Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41, SIF 37), ss. 84(a), 125(7), Sch. 20 (subject to a saving for s. 3(3) in s. 125(6), Sch. 19 para. 10(1) of the 1990 Act)

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Textual Amendments

F5 Ss. 4, 5 repealed by Overseas Pensions Act 1973 (c. 21), Sch. 2

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Textual Amendments

F6 Ss. 1, 2(2)(3), 6, 8, 11(2), 15(5), 16 repealed by Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11), s. 23(1), Schs. 5, 8

7 Extension of superannuation provisions of National Health Service Acts. U.K.

(1) [F7 The Secretary of State] (hereafter in this section referred to as “the Minister”) may direct that regulations made under [F8 section 10 of the M1 Superannuation Act 1972] shall, subject to such modifications as may be provided in the direction, apply to any person specified in the direction—

(a) who is—

(i) wholly or mainly engaged in health services, whether provided under [F9 the National Health Service Act 2006, the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006 ] or otherwise, but not provided by a . . . F10 local authority; or

(ii) an officer of a government department serving on the medical or nursing staff of that department or at or for the purposes of a hospital maintained by that department,

and who, if he were in the employment of an employing authority within the meaning of those regulations, would be an officer within the meaning of those regulations; or

(b) who is a member of a body constituted under [F11 the National Health Service Act 2006 or the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006, other than an NHS trust or an NHS foundation trust],

or to any class so specified of such persons, as if the person, or any person of the class, so specified were, within the meaning of the said regulations, an officer in the employment of an employing authority, and in that event the regulations shall apply accordingly and [F8 any scheme under section 1 of the said Act of 1972], if otherwise applicable, shall not apply, or shall cease to apply, to that person.

(2) Where any person [F12 while continuing in or], within twelve months after leaving employment in which he was entitled to participate in superannuation benefits provided under the said [F13 section 10] (any period spent by that person on an approved course of study or training within the meaning of regulations made under that section being left out of account), enters such other employment as may be approved by the Minister for the purposes of this subsection, the Minister may direct that regulations so made shall, subject to such modifications as may be provided in the direction, apply to that person as if, while in that other employment, he were, within the meaning of those regulations, an officer in the employment of an employing authority, and in that event those regulations shall apply accordingly.

(3) A direction under subsection (1) or (2) of this section may be expressed to take effect as from the date of a person’s entry into employment notwithstanding that the direction, or the approval of that employment for the purposes of the said subsection (2), was not given until after that date.

(4) A direction given, or deemed under subsection (6) of this section to have been given, under subsection (1) or (2) of this section shall not be varied or revoked by a subsequent direction so as to exclude from the benefits provided under the said [F13 section 10] any person previously entitled thereto unless—

(a) the Minister is satisfied that other suitable superannuation arrangements are available for that person; and

(b) that person consents to his being so excluded;

and where the subsequent direction results in such an exclusion of any such person, it may contain provision for the payment of a transfer value in respect of that person.

(5) The foregoing provisions of this section shall apply to Scotland with the substitution for references to the Minister of references to the Secretary of State and for references to [F14 the National Health Service Act 2006] . . . F15 of references . . . F15 to the National Health Service (Scotland) M2 [F16 Act 1978] . . . F15

(6) The following provisions are hereby repealed or revoked, namely—

(a) section 19 of the M3 National Health Service (Amendment) Act 1949;

(b) regulation 60 of the M4 National Health Service (Superannuation) Regulations 1961;

(c) regulation 57 of the M5 National Health Service (Superannuation)(Scotland) Regulations 1961;

but any direction or approval given, or having effect as if given, under any of those provisions and in force immediately before the commencement of this section shall be deemed to have been given under and for the purposes of the corresponding provision of this section.

Textual Amendments

F7 Words substituted (for words “the Minister of Health”) by virtue of S.I. 1968/1699, arts. 2, 5(4)(a)

F8 Words substituted by Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11), Sch. 6 para. 66(a)

F9 Words in s. 7(1)(a)(i) substituted (1.3.2007) by National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 43), s. 8(2), Sch. 1 para. 29(a) (with Sch. 3 Pt. 1)

F10 Words repealed by National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973 (c. 32), Sch. 5

F11 Words in s. 7(1)(b) substituted (1.3.2007) by National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 43), s. 8(2), Sch. 1 para. 29(b) (with Sch. 3 Pt. 1)

F12 Words inserted by Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11), s. 10(5)

F13 Words substituted by Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11), Sch. 6 para. 66(b)

F14 Words in s. 7(5) substituted (1.3.2007) by National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 43), s. 8(2), Sch. 1 para. 29(c) (with Sch. 3 Pt. 1)

F15 Words repealed by Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11), Sch. 8

F16 Words substituted by National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 (c. 29), Sch. 16 para. 24

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 S. 7: transfer of certain functions (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/1750, arts. 1, 2, Sch. 1 (with art. 7)

Marginal Citations

M1 1972 c. 11.

M2 1978 c. 29.

M3 1949 c. 93.

M4 S.I. 1961/1441.

M5 S.I. 1961/1398.

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Textual Amendments

F17 Ss. 1, 2(2)(3), 6, 8, 11(2), 15(5), 16 repealed by Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11), s. 23(1), Schs. 5, 8

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Textual Amendments

F18 S. 9 repealed by Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978 (c. 44), Sch. 17

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Textual Amendments

F19 S. 10 repealed by Parliamentary and other Pensions Act 1972 (c. 48), Sch. 4

11 Pensions of certain persons transferring to different employment. U.K.

(1) For the purposes of section 2 of the M6 Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1948 (under which rules may be made with respect to the pension payable to or in respect of a person who has been employed in an employment of one of the classes specified in subsection (2) of that section and becomes employed in a different employment), employment in the descriptions of service as teachers referred to in paragraph (e) of that subsection shall be treated as employments of different classes instead of as employment of the same class, and the enactments specified in subsections (2) to (5) of this section shall accordingly have effect subject to the amendments so specified.

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(3) In subsection (3) of the said section 2 (which specifies the appropriate Minister for the purposes of any class of employment specified in subsection (2) of that section), as amended by Schedule 1 to the M7 Overseas Service Act 1958, for paragraphs (v) and (vi) there shall be substituted the following:—

“(v) in relation to a class specified in paragraph (e), (ee) or (f) of the said subsection (2), the Secretary of State acting with the consent of the Treasury”;

and so much of the said Schedule as amends the said subsection (3) is hereby repealed.

(4) In subsection (4) of the said section 2, for paragraph (b) there shall be substituted the following:—

“(b) where either of the employments is such an employment as is mentioned in paragraph (a), (e), (ee) or (f) of subsection (2) of this section, payments out of moneys provided by Parliament”;

and paragraph (d) of the said subsection (4) and so much of Schedule 1 to the said Act of 1958 as amends that subsection are hereby repealed.

(5) In section 17(1) of the said Act of 1948, for the definition of Scottish Teachers Superannuation Scheme there shall be substituted the following definition— “ “Scottish Teachers Superannuation Scheme” means the Teachers Superannuation Scheme and the Teachers (Superannuation) Regulations as those expressions are defined in section 145(47) and (48) of the Education (Scotland) Act 1962. ”

(6) In section 2(4)(a) of the said Act of 1948 (which, in the case of a person changing his employment who has recieved any payment in respect of his pension rights upon ceasing to be employed in his former employment, enables rules to require payments by that person equal to all or any of the amounts so recieved) at the end there shall be inserted the words “ with or without interest on those amounts for the whole or any part of the period since he received them ”.

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(8) Where—

(a) on 1st January 1967 a person was serving in one of the capacities specified in section 10(1) of the M8 Police Pensions Act 1921; and

(b) before that date that person had served in one or more other of those capacities,

then, in lieu of the provision with respect to any pension payable to that person made by paragraph (b) of the proviso to the said section 10(1), there shall be deemed as from that date to have been payable by or to such police authority, or to the Treasury, or out of moneys provided by Parliament, as the case may require, such transfer value or values as the Treasury may direct, regard being had to the period of service and the pay received by that person in each respectively of those capacities.

Textual Amendments

F20 Ss. 1, 2(2)(3), 6, 8, 11(2), 15(5), 16 repealed by Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11), s. 23(1), Schs. 5, 8

F21 S. 11(7) repealed by Police Pensions Act 1976 (c. 35), Sch. 3

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C2 The text of Ss. 11(3)(4)(5)(6)(7), 15(8)(a)–(l) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.

Marginal Citations

M6 1948 c. 33.

M7 1958 c. 14

M8 1921 c. 31.

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Textual Amendments

F22 S. 12 repealed by S.I. 1970/1682, Sch. 2

13 Pensions of police cadets. U.K.

(1) Regulations made by the Secretary of State under [F23 section 52 of the Police Act 1996] (which relates to regulations for police cadets) may include provision—

(a) for the application to police cadets appointed under [F24 section 28 of that Act], subject to such modifications as may be prescribed by the regulations, of any provisions made by or under any enactment relating to the pensions payable to or in respect of members of police forces; and

(b) for any regulations made by virtue of paragraph (a) of this subsection to have effect in relation to any police cadet to the exclusion of any other provision for pension, allowance or gratuity in respect of his service as a police cadet contained in or in force under any other enactment and, for the purpose of a return of any contributions made by the cadet under that other provision, for the cadet to be deemed to have ceased his employment upon the regulations coming into effect in relation to him.

[F25 (2) Regulations under subsection (1) of this section may provide for the reduction or withholding of awards under the regulations in cases where awards are provided for in respect of the same matters under any of the enactments relating to . . . F26 social security].

(3) This section shall apply to Scotland with the substitution for the references in subsection (1) thereof to [F27 sections 52 and 28 of the Police Act 1996]of references to [F28 sections 27 and 28 respectively of the M9 Police (Scotland) Act 1967].

Textual Amendments

F23 Words in s. 13(1) substituted (22.8.1996) by 1996 c. 16, ss. 103, 105(2), Sch. 7 Pt. II, para. 13(2)(a)

F24 Words in s. 13(1)(a) substituted (22.8.1996) by 1996 c. 16 ss. 103, 105(2), Sch. 7 Pt. II, para. 13(2)(b)

F25 S. 13(2) substituted by Social Security Act 1973 (c. 38), Sch. 27 para. 72

F26 Words repealed by Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1975 (c. 18), Sch. 1 Pt. I

F27 Words in s. 13(3) substituted (22.8.1996) by 1996 c. 16, ss. 103, 105(2), Sch. 7, Pt. II para. 13(3)

F28 Words substituted by Police (Scotland) Act 1967 (c. 77), Sch. 4

Marginal Citations

M9 1967 c. 77.

14 Pensions for medical commissioners of Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland. U.K.

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Textual Amendments

F29 S. 14 repealed by Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984 (c. 36, SIF 85), s. 127(2), Sch. 5

15 Superannuation of metropolitan civil staffs. E+W

(1) In this section—

(a) the expression “member of the metropolitan civil staffs” means a person—

[F30 (i) who is employed by the Metropolitan Police Authority;]

F31 (ii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

but does not include any person such as is mentioned in [F32 regulation B2(1)(l) of the M10 Local Government Superannuation Regulations 1974;]

(b) the expression “civil service provisions” means the following as for the time being in force, namely, [F33 the principal civil service pension scheme within the meaning of section 2 of the M11 Superannuation Act 1972 and any] enactment or instrument, being an enactment or instrument relating to pensions or other benefits to or in respect of persons who are or have been in the civil service of the State, whether that enactment or instrument was passed or made before or after the passing of this Act, other than an enactment or instrument relating to transfers between that service and service as a member of the metropolitan civil staffs;

(c) the expression “the appointed day” means such day as the Secretary of State may by order appoint.

[F34 (2) As from the day on which section 310 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999 comes into force, the Metropolitan Police Authority shall have power to grant pensions or other benefits to or in respect of persons who on that day are, or thereafter become, members of the metropolitan civil staffs.

(2A) The Metropolitan Police Authority may, to such extent and subject to such conditions as it thinks fit, authorise the exercise of the function of administering the grant of pensions and other benefits under this section by, or by employees of, any person.

(2B) Where a person is authorised under subsection (2A) above to exercise the function of administering the grant of pensions and other benefits under this section, anything done or omitted to be done by or in relation to him (or an employee of his) in, or in connection with, the exercise or purported exercise of the function shall be treated for all purposes as done or omitted to be done by the person who authorised him.

(2C) Subsection (2B) above does not apply for the purposes of—

(a) any criminal proceedings against the authorised person (or any employee of his); or

(b) any contract between him and the person who authorised him, so far as relating to the function.

(2D) Unless the powers conferred by section 7 of the M12 Superannuation Act 1972, section 50 of the Justices of the M13 Peace Act 1997, paragraph 36 of Schedule 14 to the M14 Access to Justice Act 1999 or Part XII of the Greater London Authority Act 1999 are exercised for the purpose of making provision with respect to the provision of pensions for or in respect of members of the metropolitan civil staffs, the civil service provisions shall have effect (subject to any regulations for the time being i force under subsection (3) of this section) for the purposes of the grant of pensions and other benefits under this section to or in respect of such a member, for the purposes of transfers (whether before, on or after the appointed day) between service as such a member and other service (not being service in the the civil service of the State), or for any connected purpose, as they have effect for the purposes of the grant by the Treasury ou t of moneys provided by Parliament or out of the Consolidated Fund of pensions or other benefits to or in respect of persons in the civil service of the State, for the purposes of transfers between that service and any other service (not being service as a member of the metropolitan civil staffs), or of any corresponding connected purpose, as the caes may be, and as if employment as a member of the metropolitan civil staffs were employment in a public department.]

(3) The Secretary of State may [F35 with the consent of the Minister for the Civil Service] by regulations provide that any of the civil service provisions shall have effect for the purposes of pensions or other benefits under this section, or of transfers between service as a member of the metropolitan civil staffs and other service, or for any connected purpose, as the case may be—

(a) subject to any exceptions [F36 additions] or modifications specified in the regulations; and

(b) subject to any adaptations so specified, being adaptations appearing to the Secretary of State to be necessary or expedient to ensure that those provisions have effect as mentioned in subsection [F37 (2D)] of this section,

and any such adaptations may be either general adaptations applicable to all the civil service provisions, whether or not passed or made at the date of the making of the regulations, or particular adaptations of particular provisions.

(4) Regulations under subsection (3) of this section may be made so as to have effect as from any date not earlier than the date of the coming into force of the civil service provision in question, notwithstanding that the regulations are made after that date.

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[F39 (6) Before making regulations under subsection (3) of this section the Secretary of State shall consult with persons appearing to him to represent the metropolitan civil staffs [F40 and with the Metropolitan Police Authority] , and before any such regulations come into operation the Secretary of State shall lay a copy thereof before Parliament].

(7) Nothing in this section shall affect any pension or other benefit granted under the Metropolitan Police Staff (Superannuation) Acts 1875 to 1931 before the appointed day, and accordingly any such pension or other benefit shall [F41 be paid by the Metropolitan Police Authority].

(8) As from the appointed day the following provisions are hereby repealed or revoked, namely—

(a) the M15 Metropolitan Police Staff (Superannuation) Act 1875;

(b) the M16 Metropolitan Staff Superannuation Act 1885;

(c) in the M17 Police Act 1909, section 4;

(d) in the M18 Metropolitan Police (Staff Superannuation and Police Fund) Act 1931, sections 1 to 3;

(e) in the M19 Superannuation (Various Services) Act 1938, in Part I of the Schedule, the entry relating to the Metropolitan Police Staff (Superannuation) Acts 1875 to 1931;

(f) in section 2 of the M20 Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1948, subsections (2)(b) and (3)(ii) and, in subsection (4), paragraph (c), the words “into the Metrpolitan Police Fund”, and the word “(c)” in the last place where it occurs;

(g) the M21 Superannuation (Transfers between Metrpolitan Police Staffs and Local Government) Rules 1959;

(h) the M22 National Insurance (Modification of the Metropolitan Police Staffs Superannuation Provisions) Regulations 1961;

(i) the M23 National Insurance (Modification of the Metropolitan Polce Staffs Superannuation Provisions) Regulations 1963;

(j) in the M24 Administration of Justice Act 1964, section 24;

(k) the M25 National Insurance (Modification of the Metropolitan Police Staffs Superannuation Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations 1966;

(l) the M26 Superannuation (Transfers between Police and Metropolitan Polce Staffs) Rules 1966.

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Extent Information

E1 This version of this provision extends to England and Wales only; a separate version has been created for Scotland and Northern Ireland only

Textual Amendments

F30 S. 15(1)(a)(i) substituted (3.7.2000) by 1999 c. 29, s. 325, Sch. 27 para. 20(2) (with Sch. 12 para. 9(1)); S.I. 2000/1648, art. 2, Sch. (subject to transitional provision in Sch.)

F31 S. 15(1)(a)(ii) repealed (1.4.2001) by 1999 c. 22, s. 106, Sch. 15 Pt. V(6) (with Sch. 14 paras. 7(2), 36(9)); S.I. 2001/916, art. 2 (with savings in Sch. 1 para. 4)

F32 Words substituted by S.I. 1974/520, Sch. 18 para. 6

F33 Words substituted by Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11), s. 14(2)

F34 S. 15(2) substituted (3.7.2000) by 1999 c. 29, s. 325, Sch. 27 para. 20(3) (with Sch. 12 para. 9(1)); S.I. 2000/1648, art. 2, Sch. (subject to transitional provision in Sch.)

F35 Words inserted by Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11), s. 14(3)

F36 Word inserted by Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11), s. 14(3)

F37 Words in s. 15(3)(b) substituted (3.7.2000) by 1999 c. 29, s. 325, Sch. 27 para. 20(4) (with Sch. 12 para. 9(1)); S.I. 2000/1648, art. 2, Sch. (subject to transitional provision in Sch.)

F38 Ss. 1, 2(2)(3), 6, 8, 11(2), 15(5), 16 repealed by Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11), s. 23(1), Schs. 5, 8

F39 S. 15(6) substituted by Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11), s. 14(5)

F40 Words in s. 15(6) inserted (3.7.2000) by 1999 c. 29, s. 325, Sch. 27 para. 20(5) (with Sch. 12 para. 9(1)); S.I. 2000/1648, art. 2, Sch. (subject to transitional provision in Sch.)

F41 Words in s. 15(7) substituted (3.7.2000) by 1999 c. 29, ss. 325, Sch. 27 para. 20(6) (with Sch. 12 para. 9(1)); S.I. 2000/1648, art. 2, Sch. (subject to transitional provision in Sch.)

F42 S. 15(9) repealed (1.4.2001) by 1999 c. 22, s. 106, Sch. 15 Pt. V(6) (with Sch. 14 paras. 7(2), 36(9)); S.I. 2001/916, art. 2

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C3 S. 15: power to appeal or amend conferred (E.W.)(prosp.) by 1994 c. 29, ss. 82(7)(11) (which said s. 82 was repealed (19.6.1997), without having come into force, by 1997 c. 25, s. 73(3), Sch. 6 Pt. I)

C4 S. 15 modified (E.W.) (prosp.) by 1997 c. 25, ss. 50(7)(11), 74(2), (with s. 73(1), Sch. 4 para. 27)

C5 S. 15: power to extend conferred (27.9.1999) by 1999 c. 22, ss. 105, 108(3), Sch. 14 Pt. V para. 36(3)(b) (with Sch. 14 para. 7(2)).

C6 By 1999 c. 29, s. 325, Sch. 27 para. 20(8) (with Sch. 12 para. 9(1)) it is provided that s. 15(2)(a) be excluded (3.7.2000); S.I. 2000/1648, art. 2, Sch. (subject to transitional provision in Sch.)

By 1999 c. 29, s. 325, Sch. 27 para. 20(9) (with Sch. 12 para. 9(1)) is is provided that s. 15(2)(b) be applied (with modifications) (3.7.2000); S.I. 2000/1648, art. 2, Sch. (subject to transitional provision in Sch.)

C7 The text of Ss. 11(3)(4)(5)(6)(7), 15(8)(a)–(l) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.

Marginal Citations

M10 S.I. 1974/520.

M11 1972 c. 11.

M12 1972 c. 11.

M13 1997 c. 25.

M14 1999 c. 22.

M15 1875 c. 28.

M16 1885 c. 68.

M17 1909 c. 40.

M18 1931 c. 12

M19 1938 c. 13.

M20 1948 c. 33.

M21 S.I. 1959/1243.

M22 S.I. 1961/439.

M23 S.I. 1963/1610.

M24 1964 c. 42.

M25 S.I. 1966/1120.

M26 S.I. 1966/1589.

15 Superannuation of metropolitan civil staffs. S+N.I.

(1) In this section—

(a) the expression “member of the metropolitan civil staffs” means a person—

[F45 (i) who is employed by the Metropolitan Police Authority;]

F46 (ii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

but does not include any person such as is mentioned in [F47 regulation B2(1)(l) of the M29 Local Government Superannuation Regulations 1974;]

(b) the expression “civil service provisions” means the following as for the time being in force, namely, [F48 the principal civil service pension scheme within the meaning of section 2 of the M30 Superannuation Act 1972 and any] enactment or instrument, being an enactment or instrument relating to pensions or other benefits to or in respect of persons who are or have been in the civil service of the State, whether that enactment or instrument was passed or made before or after the passing of this Act, other than an enactment or instrument relating to transfers between that service and service as a member of the metropolitan civil staffs;

(c) the expression “the appointed day” means such day as the Secretary of State may by order appoint.

[F49 (2) As from the day on which section 310 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999 comes into force, the Metropolitan Police Authority shall have power to grant pensions or other benefits to or in respect of persons who on that day are, or thereafter become, members of the metropolitan civil staffs.

(2A) The Metropolitan Police Authority may, to such extent and subject to such conditions as it thinks fit, authorise the exercise of the function of administering the grant of pensions and other benefits under this section by, or by employees of, any person.

(2B) Where a person is authorised under subsection (2A) above to exercise the function of administering the grant of pensions and other benefits under this section, anything done or omitted to be done by or in relation to him (or an employee of his) in, or in connection with, the exercise or purported exercise of the function shall be treated for all purposes as done or omitted to be done by the person who authorised him.

(2C) Subsection (2B) above does not apply for the purposes of—

(a) any criminal proceedings against the authorised person (or any employee of his); or

(b) any contract between him and the person who authorised him, so far as relating to the function.

(2D) Unless the powers conferred by section 7 of the M31 Superannuation Act 1972, section 50 of the Justices of the M32 Peace Act 1997, paragraph 36 of Schedule 14 to the M33 Access to Justice Act 1999 or Part XII of the Greater London Authority Act 1999 are exercised for the purpose of making provision with respect to the provision of pensions for or in respect of members of the metropolitan civil staffs, the civil service provisions shall have effect (subject to any regulations for the time being in force under subsection (3) of this section) for the purposes of the grant of pensions and other benefits under this section to or in respect of such a member for the purposes of transfers (whether before, on or after the appointed day) between service as such a member and other service (not being service in the civil service of the State), or for any connected purpose, as they have effect for the purposes of the grant by the Treasury out of moneys provided by Parliament or out of the Consolidated Fund of pensions or other benefits to or in respect of persons in the civil service of the State, for the purposes of transfers between that sevice and any other service (not being service as a member of the metropolitan civil staffs), or for any corresponding connected purpose, as the case may be, and as if employment as a memebr of the metropolitan civil staffs were employment in a public department.]

(3) The Secretary of State may [F50 with the consent of the Minister for the Civil Service] by regulations provide that any of the civil service provisions shall have effect for the purposes of pensions or other benefits under this section, or of transfers between service as a member of the metropolitan civil staffs and other service, or for any connected purpose, as the case may be—

(a) subject to any exceptions [F51 additions] or modifications specified in the regulations; and

(b) subject to any adaptations so specified, being adaptations appearing to the Secretary of State to be necessary or expedient to ensure that those provisions have effect as mentioned in subsection [F52 (2D)] of this section,

and any such adaptations may be either general adaptations applicable to all the civil service provisions, whether or not passed or made at the date of the making of the regulations, or particular adaptations of particular provisions.

(4) Regulations under subsection (3) of this section may be made so as to have effect as from any date not earlier than the date of the coming into force of the civil service provision in question, notwithstanding that the regulations are made after that date.

(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F53

[F54 (6) Before making regulations under subsection (3) of this section the Secretary of State shall consult with persons appearing to him to represent the metropolitan civil staffs [F55 and with the Metropolitan Police Authority], and before any such regulations come into operation the Secretary of State shall lay a copy thereof before Parliament].

(7) Nothing in this section shall affect any pension or other benefit granted under the Metropolitan Police Staff (Superannuation) Acts 1875 to 1931 before the appointed day, and accordingly any such pension or other benefit shall [F56 be paid by the Metropolitan Police Authority].

(8) As from the appointed day the following provisions are hereby repealed or revoked, namely—

(a) the M34 Metropolitan Police Staff (Superannuation) Act 1875;

(b) the M35 Metropolitan Staff Superannuation Act 1885;

(c) in the M36 Police Act 1909, section 4;

(d) in the M37 Metropolitan Police (Staff Superannuation and Police Fund) Act 1931, sections 1 to 3;

(e) in the M38 Superannuation (Various Services) Act 1938, in Part I of the Schedule, the entry relating to the Metropolitan Police Staff (Superannuation) Acts 1875 to 1931;

(f) in section 2 of the M39 Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1948, subsections (2)(b) and (3)(ii) and, in subsection (4), paragraph (c), the words “into the Metrpolitan Police Fund”, and the word “(c)” in the last place where it occurs;

(g) the M40 Superannuation (Transfers between Metrpolitan Police Staffs and Local Government) Rules 1959;

(h) the M41 National Insurance (Modification of the Metropolitan Police Staffs Superannuation Provisions) Regulations 1961;

(i) the M42 National Insurance (Modification of the Metropolitan Polce Staffs Superannuation Provisions) Regulations 1963;

(j) in the M43 Administration of Justice Act 1964, section 24;

(k) the M44 National Insurance (Modification of the Metropolitan Police Staffs Superannuation Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations 1966;

(l) the M45 Superannuation (Transfers between Police and Metropolitan Polce Staffs) Rules 1966.

F57 (9) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Extent Information

E2 This version of this provision extends to Scotland and Northern Ireland only; a separate version has been created for England and Wales only

Textual Amendments

F45 S. 15(1)(a)(i) substituted (3.7.2000) by 1999 c. 29, s. 325, Sch. 27 para. 20(2) (with Sch. 12 para. 9(1)); S.I. 2000/1648, art. 2, Sch. (subject to transitional provision in Sch.)

F46 S. 15(1)(a)(ii) repealed (1.4.2001) by 1999 c. 22, s. 106, Sch. 15 Pt. V(6) (with Sch. 14 paras. 7(2), 36(9)); S.I. 2001/916, art. 2 (with savings in Sch. 1 para. 4)

F47 Words substituted by S.I. 1974/520, Sch. 18 para. 6

F48 Words substituted by Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11), s. 14(2)

F49 S. 15(2)-(2D) substituted for s 15(2) (3.7.2000) by 1999 c. 29, s. 325, Sch. 27 para. 20(3) (with Sch. 12 para. 9(1)); S.I. 2000/1648, art. 2, Sch. (subject to transitional provision in Sch.)

F50 Words inserted by Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11), s. 14(3)

F51 Word inserted by Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11), s. 14(3)

F52 Words in s. 15(3)(b) substituted (3.7.2000) by 1999 c. 29, s. 325, Sch. 27 para. 20(4) (with Sch. 12 para. 9(1)); S.I. 2000/1648, art. 2, Sch. (subject to transitional provision in Sch.)

F53 Ss. 1, 2(2)(3), 6, 8, 11(2), 15(5), 16 repealed by Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11), s. 23(1), Schs. 5, 8

F54 S. 15(6) substituted by Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11), s. 14(5)

F55 Words in s. 15(6) inserted (3.7.2000) by 1999 c. 29, s. 325, Sch. 27 para. 20(5) (with Sch. 12 para. 9(1)); S.I. 2000/1648, art. 2, Sch. (subject to transitional provision in Sch.)

F56 Words in s. 15(7) substituted (3.7.2000) by 1999 c. 29, s. 325, Sch. 27 para. 20(6) (with Sch. 12 para. 9(1)); S.I. 2000/1648, art. 2, Sch. (subject to transitional provision in Sch.)

F57 S. 15(9) repealed (1.4.2001) by 1999 c. 22, s. 106, Sch. 15 Pt. V(6) (with Sch. 14 paras. 7(2), 36(9)); S.I. 2001/916, art. 2

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C8 S. 15: power to extend conferred (27.9.1999) by 1999 c. 22, ss. 105, 108(3), Sch. 14 Pt. V para. 36(3)(b) (with Sch. 14 para. 7(2))

C9 By 1999 c. 29, s. 325, Sch. 27 para. 20(8) (with Sch. 12 para. 9(1)) it is provided that s. 15(2)(a) be excluded (3.7.2000); S.I. 2000/1648, art. 2, Sch. (subject to transitional provision in Sch.)

By 1999 c. 29, s. 325, Sch. 27 para. 20(9) (with Sch. 12 para. 9(1)) it is provided that s. 15(2)(b) be applied (with modifications) (3.7.2000); S.I. 2000/1648, art. 2, Sch. (subject to transitional provision in Sch.)

C10 The text of Ss. 11(3)(4)(5)(6)(7), 15(8)(a)-(l) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.

Marginal Citations

M29 S.I. 1974/520.

M30 1972 c. 11.

M31 1972 c. 11.

M32 1997 c. 25.

M33 1999 c. 22.

M34 1875 c. 28.

M35 1885 c. 68.

M36 1909 c. 40.

M37 1931 c. 12

M38 1938 c. 13.

M39 1948 c. 33.

M40 S.I. 1959/1243.

M41 S.I. 1961/439.

M42 S.I. 1963/1610.

M43 1964 c. 42.

M44 S.I. 1966/1120.

M45 S.I. 1966/1589.

16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F43 U.K.

Textual Amendments

F43 Ss. 1, 2(2)(3), 6, 8, 11(2), 15(5), 16 repealed by Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11), s. 23(1), Schs. 5, 8

17 Expenses. U.K.

There shall be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament or out of the Consolidated Fund, as the case may be, any increase attributable to the provisions of this Act in the sums so payable under any other Act.

18 Citation and construction of references. U.K.

(1) This Act may be cited as the Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1967.

(2) The M27 Superannuation Act 1965 and sections 1 and 2(2) and (3) of this Act may be cited together as the Superannuation Acts 1965 and 1967.

(3) The M28 Governors’ Pensions Act 1957 and section 4 of this Act may be cited together as the Governors’ Pensions Acts 1957 and 1967.

(4) [F44 Section 7] of this Act—

(a) [F44 so far as it applies] to England and Wales, may be cited together with the National Health Service Acts 1946 to 1966 as the National Health Service Acts 1946 to 1967;

(b) [F44 so far as it applies] to Scotland, may be cited together with the National Health Service (Scotland) Acts 1947 to 1966 as the National Health Service (Scotland) Acts 1947 to 1967.

(5) Save where the context otherwise requires, any reference in this Act to any enactment or instrument shall be construed as a reference to that enactment or instrument as amended, extended or applied by or under any other enactment or instrument, including any enactment contained in this Act.

Textual Amendments

F44 Words substituted by Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11), Sch. 6 para. 67

Marginal Citations

M27 1965 c. 74.

M28 1957 c. 62.