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LOCAL GOVERNMENT STAFFS (WAR SERVICE) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1939

LOCAL GOVERNMENT STAFFS (WAR SERVICE) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1939 -
LONG TITLE

An Act to make provision with respect to the war service of
persons employed by local authorites and for purposes connected
therewith.{1}
[6th December 1939]
Civil RemunerationPayments to make up civil remuneration.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT STAFFS (WAR SERVICE) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1939 -
SECT 1

1.(1) Where a person serving in any capacity with a local authority
(hereafter in this section referred to as "his civil capacity")
ceases so to serve in order to undertake war service, the local
authority shall have power to make to or in respect of him such
payments as are hereafter in this section provided.

(2) While any such person is engaged in war service the local
authority may pay to him, or to or for the benefit of his wife
or other dependants nominated by him, a sum which shall not exceed
the remuneration which he would have received if he had continued
to serve in his civil capacity, after deducting therefrom the amount
of his war service pay.

(3) In the event of the notification of the death of any such
person while engaged in war service, or of his having become
missing while so engaged, being given by the authority competent in
that behalf, the local authority may, during a period not exceeding
twenty-six weeks from the date of the notification, pay to or for
the benefit of his wife or other dependants such sum as might have
been paid to him under the last preceding sub-section if he had
been so engaged during that period:

Provided that, in fixing the sum to be paid under this sub-section,
regard shall be had to any pension or other sum payable to or for
the benefit of the wife or other dependants out of public or
charitable funds.

Ss.27 rep. (exc. as respects superannuation of certain existing
officers) by 1950 c.10 (NI) s.9 sch.3

Interpretation.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT STAFFS (WAR SERVICE) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1939 -
SECT 8

8. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the following
expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them that is to
say:

"Local authority" means any person or body of persons who receive
or expend the proceeds of any local rate, and any other public
body which the Ministry of Home Affairs may determine to be a
local authority for the purposes of this Act;

"Period of the present emergency" means the period beginning with
the first day of September, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, and
ending with such day as the Governor of Northern Ireland may by
Order in Council declare to be the date on which the emergency
that was the occasion of the passing of this Act came to an end;

"Remuneration" means salary, wages and emoluments;

Definitions rep. (exc. as respects superannuation of certain existing
officers) by 1950 c.10 (NI) s.9 sch.3

"War service" means service, during the period of the present
emergency, in any of the naval, military or air forces of the
Crown, and any employment during that period which the Ministry of
Home Affairs considers may properly be treated for the purposes of
this Act in the same manner as service in those forces;

"War service pay," in relation to the remuneration which any person
would have received if he had continued to serve in any capacity
with a local authority, means his pay (including marriage, family
and other similar allowances) in respect of his war service, or, in
a case where he ceased to serve not only in that capacity but
also in any other such capacity or capacities in order to undertake
war service, an amount which bears the same proportion to his pay
(including marriage, family and other similar allowances) in respect
of his war service as the remuneration which he would have received
if he had continued to serve in the first mentioned capacity bears
to the total remuneration which he would have received if he had
continued to serve in both or all of those capacities.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT STAFFS (WAR SERVICE) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1939 -
SECT 9
Short title and commencement.

9.(1) This Act may be cited as the Local Government Staffs (War
Service) Act (Northern Ireland), 1939.

(2) This Act shall be deemed to have come into operation at the
beginning of the period of the present emergency.