Section 3 Supplementary pensions to European barrister judges of Federal Court and British India High Courts.

United Kingdom

(1)

The Secretary of State may grant a pension payable out of moneys provided by Parliament to the last person who held the office of Chief Justice of India before the fifteenth day of August, nineteen hundred and forty-seven.

(2)

The Secretary of State may grant a pension payable out of moneys provided by Parliament to any European who—

(a)

was not a member of the Indian Civil Service but has been or is to be granted a pension payable by a Government in India or Pakistan; and

(b)

was, immediately before the fifteenth day of August, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, a judge of any High Court in British India and had not before that date retired or gone on leave pending retirement; and

(c)

retires, either before or after the passing of this Act.

C1(3)

A pension under this section shall be at such rate as the Secretary of State may, with the approval of the Treasury, determine in the particular case.

Annotations

Modifications

C1: S. 3(3): functions of the Treasury now again exercisable by the Treasury: S.I. 1968/1656, arts. 2(1)(c), 3(2) and 1981/1670, arts. 2(1)(c), 3(5)

Notes on the whole Act

Textual amendments

F1: Act repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. 11