Exchequer and Audit Departments Act 1866

4 Power to Her Majesty to grant salaries as herein named, and also pensions.

Her Majesty may, by such letters patent, grant to the persons therein named the following salaries ; that is to say,—

• To the Comptroller and Auditor General a salary of two thousand pounds per annum, and to the Assistant Comptroller and Auditor a salary of one thousand five hundred pounds per annum ; and such salaries shall be charged upon and paid out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom or the growing produce thereof.

• It shall be lawful for Her Majesty, Her heirs and successors, by letters patent as aforesaid, to grant to any person who shall have executed the offices of Comptroller and Auditor General, or Assistant Comptroller and Auditor, on his ceasing to hold such office, an annuity or pension not exceeding one half of the salary of his office to which he shall have been entitled immediately before he ceased to hold such office, if he shall have held either, or one after the other, of the said offices, or the office of Commissioner of Audit for a period not less than fifteen years, and two thirds of his said salary if he shall have held either, or one after the other, of the said offices for a period not less than twenty years : Provided always, that no such annuity or pension shall be granted to either of the said officers unless he be sixty years of age at the least, or be afflicted with some permanent infirmity disabling him from the due execution of his office, the same to be distinctly recited in such grant: Provided also, that nothing herein contained shall prevent either of the said officers from receiving, in lieu of such annuity or pension, if he shall so elect, the amount of superannuation allowance to which he would have been entitled in respect of the full period during which he shall have served in the permanent Civil Service of the State under the provisions of the Superannuation Act, 1859.