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Local Government (Emergency Provisions) Act 1916 (c.12)

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Local Government (Emergency Provisions) Act 1916

1916 CHAPTER 12 6_and_7_Geo_5

An Act to make provision with respect to Officers and Servants of Local Authorities serving in or with His Majesty’s Forces and to make various administrative provisions with a view to economy in money and labour in connection with the present War.

[17th May 1916]

Annotations:

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1Act extended by S.R. & O. 1918/548 (Rev. I, p. 896: 1918 I, p. 50)

C2Functions of Local Government Board under this Act now exercisable by Secretary of State: Ministry of Health Act 1919 (c. 21), s. 3(1)(a)(5), Sch. 1, S.I. 1951/142, 1900 (1951 I, pp. 1348, 1347), 1965/319 and 1970/1681

C3Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3

C4This Act is not necessarily in the form in which it has effect in Northern Ireland

C5Act: transfer of functions (W.) (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/672, art. 2, Sch. 1

Commencement Information

I1Act wholly in force at Royal Assent

Part I Provisions as to Officers of Local Authorities in Naval or Military Service

1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1

Annotations:

Amendments (Textual)

F1Ss. 1, 4, 5(a) repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1927 (c. 42)

2 Payments under superannuation schemes

If an officer or servant of a local authority dies whilst serving in or with His Majesty’s forces, or in consequence of wounds or disease received or contracted during such service which prevented him from returning to the service of the local authority, the local authority shall have, and shall be deemed always to have had, power to make to his widow or other dependants such payments as could have been made to them under any superannuation scheme (whether established by statute or otherwise) in force in the district had he been actually serving the local authority at the time of his death.

Annotations:

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1S. 2 extended by Pensions (Increase) Act 1971 (c. 56), ss. 5(1), 7(2) Sch. 2 para. 39, Sch. 3 paras. 1, 2, 7

3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1

Annotations:

Amendments (Textual)

F1Ss. 3, 6 repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1977 (c. 18), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. XI