Greenwich Hospital Act 1942

1942 CHAPTER 35 5 and 6 Geo 6

An Act to extend the powers of the Admiralty under section twenty of the Greenwich Hospital Act, 1865, with respect to the grant and allocation of pensions and pecuniary benefits in the case of persons employed for the purposes of Greenwich Hospital and otherwise to amend the said section; to provide, on the death of any such persons, for the distribution without probate or other proof of title of sums not exceeding one hundred pounds due to those persons or to their legal personal representatives; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.

[22nd October 1942]

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Power to amend Act given by Administration of Estates (Small Payments) Act 1965 (c. 32), s. 6

C2 Functions of Admiralty under this Act now exercisable by a Secretary of State: Defence (Transfer of Functions) Act 1964 (c. 15), s. 1(2)

C3 Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3

1 Extension of powers to grant pensions to persons employed for the purposes of Greenwich Hospital. U.K.

(1) The powers conferred on the Admiralty by section twenty of the M1 Greenwich Hospital Act, 1865, as extended by section eight of the M2 Greenwich Hospital Act, 1872, shall extend and be deemed to have extended so as to include power—

(a) to grant from the funds of Greenwich Hospital such pensions or pecuniary benefits as the Admiralty think fit to persons employed for the purposes of Greenwich Hospital, or to their legal personal representatives, [F1 widows, surviving civil partners] or dependants; and

(b) to contribute towards the payment by any other authority or person of pensions or pecuniary benefits to persons who have been employed as aforesaid, or to their legal personal representatives, [F2 widows, surviving civil partners] or dependants.

(2) The said powers shall, in the case of persons who retire after the passing of this Act from such employment as aforesaid, also extend so as to include power to permit the allocation, to such extent and subject to such conditions as the Admiralty may prescribe, to the [F3 spouses, civil partners] and dependants of any such persons of pensions granted to them from the funds of Greenwich Hospital.

F4 (3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(4) The powers conferred by this section shall be in addition to and not in derogation of any existing power exercisable by the Admiralty under the Greenwich Hospital Acts, 1865 to 1921.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in s. 1(1)(a) substituted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), s. 263(8)(a), Sch. 26 para. 14(1); S.I. 2005/3175, Sch. 1

F2 Words in s. 1(1)(b) substituted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), s. 263(8)(a), Sch. 26 para. 14(1); S.I. 2005/3175, Sch. 1

F3 Words in s. 1(2) substituted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), s. 263(8)(a), Sch. 26 para. 14(2); S.I. 2005/3175, Sch. 1

F4 S. 1(3) repealed (21.7.2008) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2008 (c. 12), Sch. 1 Pt. 1 Group 2

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C4 The text of S. 1(3) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any repeals or amendments which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991

Marginal Citations

M1 1865 c. 89.

M2 1872 c. 67.

2 †Distribution of money not exceeding one hundred pounds without probate. U.K.

Where, on the death of any person who has been employed for the purposes of Greenwich Hospital, any sum not exceeding [F5 £5000] is due from the funds of Greenwich Hospital to that person or his legal personal representatives in respect of salary, wages, or pension or other pecuniary benefit, the Admiralty may dispense with probate or other proof of the title of the legal personal representatives, and the said sum may be paid or distributed to or among the persons appearing to the Admiralty to be beneficially entitled to the personal estate of the deceased person, or to or among any one or more of those persons, or, in the case of the illegitimacy of the deceased person or any of his children, to or among such persons as the Admiralty may think fit, and the Admiralty shall be discharged from all liability in respect of any such payment or distribution.

Textual Amendments

F5 Figure substituted by virtue of Administration of Estates (Small Payments) Act 1965 (c. 32, SIF 116:1), ss. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. I and S.I. 1984/539, art. 2(a)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C5 Unreliable marginal note

3 Short title and citation. U.K.

This Act may be cited as the Greenwich Hospital Act, 1942, and the Greenwich Hospital Acts, 1865 to 1921, and this Act may be cited together as the Greenwich Hospital Acts, 1865 to 1942.