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# Superannuation (Various Services) Act 1938

## Title and introductory text {#prelims}

Superannuation (Various Services) Act 1938
1938 c.13
An Act to extend the powers conferred by certain enactments relating to superannuation so as to include power to grant the like superannuation benefits, and to permit the like allocation of superannuation benefits to spouses and dependants, as could be granted or permitted in respect of persons in the Civil Service of the State; to provide for distribution without probate of sums not exceeding one hundred pounds due to persons to whom those enactments apply or their legal personal representatives; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.
[30th March 1938]

## 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-1}



## 2 Distribution of money not exceeding one hundred pounds without probate. {#section-2}

(1) Where, on the death of a person to whom any of the enactments mentioned in the first column of Part I of the Schedule to this Act applies, any sum not exceeding £1, 500 is due to that person or his legal personal representatives in respect of salary, wages or superannuation benefits, then, subject to any regulations made by the Treasury, probate or other proof of the title of the legal personal representatives may be dispensed with, and the said sum may be paid or distributed to or among the persons appearing to the appropriate authority to be beneficially entitled to the personal estate of the deceased person, or to or among any one or more of those persons, or, in the case of the illegitimacy of the deceased person or any of his children, to or among such persons as the appropriate authority may think fit, and the appropriate authority or other person responsible for the payment of any such sum shall be discharged from all liability in respect of any such payment or distribution.
(2) For the purposes of this section, the expression “the appropriate authority” means, in relation to any of the said enactments, the person or body specified in relation to that enactment in the third column of Part I of the Schedule to this Act.

## 3 Short title and interpretation. {#section-3}

(1) This Act may be cited as the Superannuation (Various Services) Act 1938.
(2) In this Act the expression “superannuation benefits” includes a superannuation allowance, additional allowance, annual allowance, retiring allowance, compensation allowance, gratuity, pension, compensation and annuity.

## SCHEDULE Enactments extended and appropriate authority thereunder {#schedule}

Sections 1 and 2.
Part I Enactments to which sections one and two apply
Appropriate Authority.
Enactment. | [For the purposes of section one of this Act.] | For the purposes of section two of this Act.
The Caledonian and Crinan Canals Amendment Act 1860, section thirty-two, as amended by and in pursuance of section two and subsection (2) of section thirty of the Ministry of Transport Act 1919. | ... | The Minister of Transport.
... | ... | ...
The Merchant Shipping Act 1995, section 214 | ... | A general lighthouse authority.
... | ... | ...
... | ... | ...
... | ... | ...
... | ... | ...
The Transport Act 1962, tenth Schedule, paragraph 8. | ... | The Minister of Transport
... | ... | ...
PART II . . .