An Act to authorise the Commutation of a portion of a Pension in pursuance of the Pensions Commutation Act, 1871.
[18th August 1882]
WHEREAS by the [34 & 35 Vict. c. 36.] Pensions Commutation Act, 1871, the Treasury-are authorised, on the application of any person to whom that Act applies, to commute his pension in the manner provided by that Act, and in accordance with the regulations from, time to time made by the Treasury:
And whereas doubts have arisen as to the power of the Treasury under the said Act to commute a portion of a pension, and it is expedient to remove such doubts:
Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
This Act may be cited as the Pensions Commutation Act, 1882.
2This Act and the Pensions Commutation Acts, 1871 and [39 & 40 Vict. c. 70.] 1876, may be cited as the Pensions Commutation Acts, 1871 to 1882.
Where the Treasury have power, in pursuance of the Pensions Commutation Act, 1871, to commute the pension of any person, the Treasury shall also have power to commute a portion of such pension, and the provisions of the Pensions Commutation Acts, 1871 and 1876, shall apply accordingly to the portion of the pension in like manner, so nearly as circumstances admit, as they apply to the whole pension.