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SCHEDULES

Sections 41 to 44 and sections 52, 63, 64

FIRST SCHEDULEE+W+S SERVICE RELEVANT FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS ACT

1(i)Service in pursuance of any notice or directions given under any enactment which provides for the calling out on permanent service, or the calling into actual service, or the embodiment, of any reserve or auxilatry force, or members thereof, or for the recall of service pensioners within the meaning of [F1section 1(1) of the Reserve Forces (Safeguard of Employment) Act 1985].

(ii)Service, other than for the purposes of training only, in pursuance of any obligation or undertaking, whether legally enforceable or not, to serve when called upon as a commissioned officer, not being an obligation or undertaking to accept a permanent or short-service commission.

(iii), (iv). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2

(v). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F3

(vi)–(viii). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F4

2, 3.E+W+S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F5

Textual Amendments

4E+W+SService for a period of eighteen months for which an officer of any reserve force of the Royal Navy or of the Royal Marines, or an officer of reserve to, or on the retired or emergency list of, or holding a temporary commission in, the Royal Navy or the Royal Marines, volunteers.

5, 6.E+W+S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F6

Textual Amendments

7E+W+SService, for the purposes of training only, for a continuous period of seven days or longer performed, whether under an obligation or under voluntary arrangements, by,—

(a)an officer or man of any reserve force of the Royal Navy or of the Royal Marines, or an officer of reserve to, or on the retired or emergency list of, or holding a temporary commission in, the Royal Navy or the Royal Marines;

(b)an officer of any army reserve of officers, a man of any army reserve force, an officer or man of the Territorial Army, or an officer of the Territorial Army Reserve of Officers;

(c)an officer of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve or of any air force reserve of officers or on the retired list of the Royal Air Force, a man of any air force reserve force or an officer or man of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force or the Royal Auxiliary Air Force Reserve;

(d)a member of any reserve of the Women’s Royal Naval Service or a member of the Naval Voluntary Aid Detachment Reserve,

not being service of a description specified in any of the preceding paragraphs of this Schedule.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1Territorial Army now known as Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve; Reserve Forces Act 1980 (c. 9), Sch. 8 para. 5(2)

Sections 46, 52

SECOND SCHEDULEE+W+S Capacities in respect of which payments may be made under Part V, and paying authorities.

PART I E+W+S General

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

CapacityPaying Authority
1. F7
2. Coroner in England or Wales.The Council by whom the coroner’s salary is paid immediately before he begins to perform relevant service to which Part V or this Act applies.
3. Employee of a local authority.The local authority.
4. Member of a police force.F8... , the police authority F8... , responsible for the maintenance of that force.
5. Member of a fire brigade maintained in pursuance of the Fire Services Act 1947.The fire authority, within the meaning of the Fire Services Act 1947, by whom the fire brigade is maintained.
6. Probation officer appointed for a probation area F9, or for two or more F10 probation areasThe probation committee for the area, or, as the case may be, the probation committees for the areas acting jointly.
7. Clerk appointed to give full-time assistance to a probation officer and remunerated by the probation committee or several probation committees acting jointly.The probation committee or committees.
[F118. Registration officer within the meaning of regulations made under section 7 of the Superannuation Act 1972.][F11The local authority in whose employment he is or is deemed for the purpose of those regulations to be.]
9. Teacher appointed by a local education authority for service in a maintained school or institution in England or Wales.The local education authority.
10. Teacher, officer or servant appointed by the F12... governors of an aided or special agreement school in England or Wales.The local education authority.
11. Teacher, officer or servant of an institution in England or Wales assisted by a local education authority out of the proceeds of any rate.The local education authority.
12. Teacher employed by an authority in Scotland.The education authority.
13. Teacher, officer or servant of the managers or governing body of a school or educational establishment to the maitenance of which an education authority contributes under [F13s. 25 of the Education (Scotland) Act 1962].The education authority.
14. Teacher, officer or servant of an educational institution as to which it is certified by [F14the Secretary of State] or, as respects Scotland, the Secratary of State, that it is expedient that the provisions of Part V of this Act should apply notwithstanding any trust affecting the institution.The managers or other governing body of the institution.
Officer of a [F15Board of Governors preserved under section 15(1) of the National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973, or a health authority or other body consituting under the National Health Service Act 1977], or [F16a Health Board or the Common Services Agency for the Scottish Health Service or other body constituted under the National Health Service (Scotland) [F17Act 1978]].[F18The Authority] The Board, Council [F19Agency] or other body.
16. Dental practitioner providing general dental service under the [F20National Health Service Act 1977], or [F21the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978], at a health centre who is remunerated by annual salary.[F20The Area Health Authority][F22or Health Board] for the area for which the services ar e provided.
17. Employee of a development corporation established under [F23the New Towns Act 1965 and the New Towns (Scotland) Act 1968].The development corporation.
18, 19 F24

Textual Amendments

F9Words repealed (except as they extend to N.I.) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989 (c. 43), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. I Gp. 5

F10Word repealed (except as it extends to N.I.) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989 (c. 43), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. I Gp. 5

F13Words substituted by virtue of Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30), s. 17(2)(a)

F14Words substituted by virtue of S.I. 1964/490, arts. 2(1), 3(2)

F24Sch. 2 Pt. I paras. 18, 19 repealed (except as they extend to N.I.) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989 (c. 43), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. I Gp. 5

PART II E+W+S ALLOCATION OF FUNCTIONS AS TO PAYABLE UNDER PART V BETWEEN DIFFERENT AUTHORITIES IN CERTAIN CASES

CapacityDetermining authorityPaying authority and authority entitled to appeal against determination
1,2 F25
F25F253. Person employed by F26. . . [F27the Crown Court] to assist [F27the appropriate officer of the Crown Court].The F26. . . court employing that person.The county council.
4. Clerk to county justices in England or Wales—
F28(a) . . .F28 . . .F28 . . .
(b) appointed or deemed for the purposes of the said Act to be appointed, by a magistrates’ courts committee.The magistrates’ courts committee. (Subject to Note below.)The county council.
5. Clerk to borough justices in England or Wales—
F28(a) . . .F28 . . .F28 . . .
(b) appointed, or deemed for the purpose of the said Act to be appointed, by a magistrates’ courts committee.The magistrates’ courts committee.(Subject to Note below.)The borough council.
6.
F28(a) . . .F28 . . .F28 . . .
(b) Employee of a magistrates’ courts committee on the staff of a justices’ clerk.The same as in the case of a justice’s clerk.The same, both as respects paying authority and authority entitled to appeal, as in the case of the justices’ clerk and where there are several paying authorities the proportions in which they contribute to give effect to any determination shall be such as they may agree, or in default of agreement, as may be determined by the Secretary of State.

Textual Amendments

F26Words repealed (except as they extend to N.I.) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989 (c. 43), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. I Gp. 5

F28Sch. 2 Pt. II paras. 4(a), 5(a), 6(a) repealed (except as they extend to N.I.) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989 (c. 43), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. I Gp. 5

Note:—In a case where a justices’ clerk holds several clerkships and where several authorities would otherwise be concerned as determining authorities, the determing authority as respects each clerkship shall be all those authorities acting jointly, or in default of agreement, the Secretary of State after consulting the authority entitled to appeal against determinations.

Section 61.

THIRD SCHEDULEE+W+S Financial Provisions Consequential on Treating a Person Dying on Service as Alive and the Converse.

1(1)This paragraph shall have effect where by virtue of the rules set out in subsection (2) of section sixty-one of this Act the appropriate authority determine that a person is to be treated as having died.E+W+S

(2)No sums paid under Part V of this Act shall be recoverable on the ground that they were paid on the footing that the person was alive at a time after the date fixed by the appropriate authority by virtue of the said section as the date of his death.

(3)Where any sums have been paid under subsection (2) of section forty-six of this Act for a period to which that person’s widow or other dependant is entitled by way of pension under any Act, scheme or regulation mentioned in paragraph (b), (c), (d) or (e) of subsection (1) of section sixty-one of this Act shall only be made if and to the extent that the appropriate authority so direct.

2(1)This paragraph shall have effect where by virtue of the rules set out in subsection (2) of section sixty-one of this Act the appropriate authority determine that a person is to be treated as having died and subsequently determine that he is to be treated as alive.E+W+S

(2)Any payment made by virtue of the first determination under subsection (3) of section forty-six of this Act or under any Act, scheme or regulations mentioned in paragraph (b), (c), (d) or (e) of subsection (1) of section sixty-one of this Act shall be irrecoverable.

(3)Where any such payments as are mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) of this paragraph have been made, the aggregate of those payments shall be compared with the greatest amount which might have been paid under subsection (2) of section forty-six of this Act if the person to whom the two determinations relate had been treated as alive during the period between those determinations and—

(a)if the first amount equals or exceeds the second, no payment shall be made to or in respect of that person for that period under the said subsection (2), and

(b)if the second amount exceeds the first, payments shall not be made under the said subsection (2) to or in respect of that person for that period amounting to more than the excess.

(4)Where any such payment as is mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) of this paragraph is a gratuity paid to the wife or other dependant of the said person then, notwithstanding that it is irrecoverable, the gratuity may in whole or in part be treated as having been paid on account of any benefit that may subsequently become payable to that wife or other dependant in respect of the death of the said person.

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