Merchant Shipping Act 1979

Staff

10The Commission may employ such persons as it considers are needed to assist the Commission in the performance of its functions and may pay to them such remuneration and allowances as the Commission considers appropriate.

11The Commission may—

(a)pay, to or in respect of persons formerly employed by the Commission, pensions, allowances or gratuities of such amounts as the Commission may determine ;

(b)make such payments towards the provision of any of the said benefits as the Commission may determine;

(c)maintain such schemes as the Commission may determine, whether contributory or not, for the payment of any of the said benefits.

12If a person employed by the Commission becomes a Commissioner and was by reference to his employment by the Commission a participant in a pension scheme maintained by the Commission in pursuance of the preceding paragraph, the Commission may determine that his service as a Commissioner shall be treated for the purposes of the scheme as service as an employee of the Commission.