3. Reduction in salary or wages. 4. Transfer from or to authority having local scheme. 5. Section thirteen of principal Act not to apply in certain cases. 6. Temporary service. 7. Persons employed in connection with local government, &c. 8. Service with persons holding appointments under local authorities. 9. Determination of prior service. 10. Amendments of provisions as to designated posts. 11. Inclusion of officers and servants not holding designated posts. 12. Officers and servants of standing joint committees. 13. Clerks of the peace of cities or boroughs. 14. Service of officer or servant having superannuation allowance, 15. Miscellaneous amendments of principal Act. 16. As to prior service with certain poor law authorities. 17. Certificates of birth. 18. Application of principal Act to Scotland. 19. Application of Superannuation Acts to certain local authorities. 20. Provisions as to adoption of principal Act to cease to apply. Interpretation. 21. 22. Short title. Officers' Superannuation. A BILL ΤΟ Amend the Local Government and other Officers' A.D. 1924. Superannuation Act, 1922. E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the 5 same, as follows: schemes. 1.-(1) Any committee appointed under and for the Committees purpose of carrying into effect a scheme of combination under comin accordance with section five (which provides for bination combinations of local authorities) of the principal Act as 10 amended by this Act shall be a body corporate by such name as may be determined by the scheme having a perpetual succession and a common seal and with power to sue and be sued in such name. (2) In any case in which, before the passing of this 15 Act, a committee has been appointed under and for the purpose of carrying into effect a scheme of combination approved by the Minister in accordance with the said section five of the principal Act, the Minister on the application of any one or more of the local authorities 20 to which the scheme relates may by order provide that such committee shall be a body corporate by such name as may be prescribed by such Order having a perpetual succession and a common seal, and with power to sue and be sued in such name. 25 2.-(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in sec- Further tion five or in section thirty-one of the principal Act provisions any local authority (including the council of a county) as to com bination. Officers' Superannuation. A.D. 1924. may enter into combination for the purposes of the Superannuation Acts Reduction wages. (a) with any other local authority whose area is contiguous to the area of such first-mentioned local authority; or (b) with any two or more local authorities if the area of any one of such local authorities is contiguous to the area of the first-mentioned local authority, 5 and the said sections five and thirty-one as amended 10 by this Act shall apply and have effect as if such combination had been authorised by those sections respectively. (2) The expressions "local authorities" and "local authority in section five of the principal Act and in 15 this section shall include the council of a county borough, and section thirty-one of the principal Act shall be read and have effect accordingly. 3. Subject to the provisions contained in the Superin salary or annuation Acts where for any reason, other than grave 20 misconduct, a local authority make a reduction (whether temporary or otherwise) in the salary or wages payable by them to an officer or servant (a) if such officer or servant be a contributor to a (b) if such officer or servant be an officer or servant |