Superannuation Act 1834

The Superannuation Act 1834 (4 & 5 Will. 4. c. 24) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland updating 1817 and 1836 acts regarding pensions for high-ranking civil servants.

It reduced:

• those for First Lord of the Treasury, president of the India Board or Committee for Trade and Plantations, Chancellor of the Exchequer or any principal Secretary of State to a maximum of £2,000 a year, with a minimum of two years' total service (section 1).
• those for Chief Secretary for Ireland and Secretary at War to £400 a year, with a minimum of five years' total service (section 2)
• those for a Joint Secretary of the Treasury, a First Secretary of the Admiralty or vice-president of the Committee for Trade and Plantations to £1,200 a year, with a minimum of five years' total service (section 3)
• those for an Under-Secretary of State, a Clerk of the Ordnance, Second Secretary of the Admiralty, or Secretary of the India Board to £1,000, with a minimum of ten years' total service

It also forbade combining any of the four above pensions (sections 1–4) unless he had served 3–5 years in the highest of two or more of those offices and 10 years in total, in which case he would be allowed £1,000 a year (section 5). It also required the applicant for any pension covered by the act to apply to the Treasury for it with proof that his income was so low that he needed the pension (section 6). The remainder of the act set out pensions for clerks and "officers" in the civil service.

Subsequent developments

The whole act was repealed by section 104(2) of, and schedule 11 to, the Superannuation Act 1965, which came into force on 8 December 1965.

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