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British Columbia.

Island; and, until it is otherwise provided by lawful Authority, the Governor of British Columbia shall have, in relation to the Territory for the Time being under his Government, all the Powers and Authorities for the Time being vested, in relation to the United Kingdom, in the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury or in the Commissioners of Customs, with respect to the Appointment of Warehousing Ports, and the Approval and Appointment of Warehouses or Places of Security in such Ports, and everything consequent thereon or relative thereto.

6. Nothing in this Act shall take away or restrict the Authority of the Governor of British Columbia, with the Advice and Consent Authority of Governor, &c. of the Legislative Council thereof, to make Laws for the Peace, Order, and good Government of British Columbia either before or after the Union; nor shall anything in this Act interfere with the Exercise of any Power that would have been exerciseable by Her Majesty in Council if this Act had not been passed.

Boundaries of

bia until Union.

7. Until the Union British Columbia shall comprise all such British Colum- Territories within the Dominions of Her Majesty as are bounded to the South by the Territories of the United States of America, to the West by the Pacific Ocean and the Frontier of the Russian Territories in North America, to the North by the Sixtieth Parallel of North Latitude, and to the East from the Boundary of the United States Northwards by the Rocky Mountains and the One hundred and twentieth Meridian of West Longitude, and shall include Queen Charlotte's Island and all other Islands adjacent to the said Territories, except Vancouver Island and the Islands adjacent thereto.

Boundaries of

8. After the Union British Columbia shall comprise all the TerBritish Colum- ritories and Islands aforesaid and Vancouver Island and the Islands adjacent thereto.

bia after Union.

Acts in Sche

9. The Acts described in the Schedule to this Act are hereby dule repealed. repealed; but this Repeal shall not invalidate any Order in Council or other Instrument issued under the Authority of those Acts or either of them, or any Act done or Right or Title acquired by virtue of those Acts or of either of them or of any such Order or Instrument.

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Pensions.

Interpretation of Terms.

CA P. LXVIII.

An Act to amend the Law relating to the granting of
Pensions and Superannuation Allowances to Per-
sons holding certain Offices connected with the
Administration of Justice in England.

W

[6th August 1866.]

HEREAS by divers Acts of Parliament Power is given to the Lord Chancellor to order Retiring Allowances to be paid, under certain Circumstances and upon certain Conditions, to Persons holding various Offices in the Courts of Chancery and in Bankruptcy and Lunacy respectively:

And whereas it is expedient to extend that Power, and to make further Provision for the granting Retiring Allowances to Persons holding Offices connected with the Administration of Justice in England:

Be it enacted by the Queen'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 same, as follows:

1. The Term "Officer" in this Act shall extend to and mean any Person holding any Office in or connected with the Court of Chancery, or in Bankruptcy or Lunacy, or in or in any Manner connected with any of Her Majesty's Superior Courts of Common Law at Westminster, and who, under any Act now in force, may, on Retirement, claim a Superannuation Allowance as herein-after defined, and the same Term shall also extend to and include every Person holding any Appointment in any public Office whatever to whom the Lord Chancellor has or shall have Authority to order any Superannuation Allowance to be paid:

The Term "Superannuation Allowance" shall extend to and mean every Kind of Pension or Annuity which, under any Act of Parliament now in force or to be hereafter passed, the Lord Chancellor has or shall have Authority to order to be paid, or which the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury have or shall have Authority to appoint or direct to be paid, to any such Officer as aforesaid:

The Expression "Lord Chancellor" shall mean and include the
Lord

Pensions.

Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain and the Lord Keeper or Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal of the United Kingdom for the Time being.

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2. From and after the passing of this Act, on the Retirement or Applications Removal of any Officer afflicted with any permanent Infirmity Officers to be disabling him from the due Execution of his Office, or otherwise in a Condition to claim Superannuation Allowance on Retirement, cellor, who shall such Officer, or in case of his Inability to act for himself then any transmit the Person on his Behalf, may make Application by Petition to the Lord same to the Treasury to Chancellor, setting forth his Service and Emoluments, in such Form examine and and with such Particulars as the Lord Chancellor shall direct; and award. the Lord Chancellor, if he shall think fit to approve of such Application, shall transmit the same to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury for their Examination and Award; and the said Commissioners shall thereupon proceed to inquire into the Claim of such Officer to Superannuation Allowance, and, if he shall appear to be entitled thereto, shall award to him such Superannuation Allowance as shall be properly payable.

If such Superannuation Allowance is payable out of Monies voted by Parliament, the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury shall direct the Payment thereof.

his Control.

If it is payable out of any Fund in Chancery, Bankruptcy, or Lord ChancelLunacy, or any other Fund under the Control and Administration or to direct Payment when of the Lord Chancellor, a Certificate shall be transmitted by the payable out of said Commissioners to the Lord Chancellor to the Effect that Proof has been given to their Satisfaction that the Conditions required by Law to enable the Lord Chancellor to grant such Superannuation have been duly fulfilled, and setting forth the Amount awarded, whereupon it shall be lawful for the Lord Chancellor to order Payment to be made accordingly.

annuation

3. In ascertaining and awarding the Amount of such Super- Mode of deterannuation Allowance, as regards any Officer who may have entered mining Superthe Public Service before the passing of this Act, the said Com- Allowance. missioners shall have regard to any special Provisions which may be contained in any Act with reference to the Office held by such Officer, and subject to any such special Provisions they may take into consideration the whole Period during which such Person shall have been employed in any Office or Situation connected in any way with the Public Service, whether the same shall have been in One only or in more than One Branch or Department; and as regards all Officers hereafter to be appointed, the said Commissioners shall

proceed

Pensions.

4 & 5 W. 4. c. 24.

proceed according to the Principles laid down in the Act passed in the Session of the Fourth and Fifth Years of His Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled An Act to alter and consolidate the Law regulating the Pensions, Compensations, and Allowances to be made to Persons in respect of their having held Civil Offices in His Majesty's Service, as amended by the Act passed in the Session of the Twenty-second Year of Her Majesty's Reign, intituled 22 Vict. c. 26. An Act to amend the Laws concerning Superannuation and other Allowances to Persons having held Offices in the Public Service.

Lord Chancellor may

declare Offices

sional, and

with Consent

add Years to

Services.

4. It shall be lawful for the Lord Chancellor to declare by Writing under his Hand, with respect to any such Office or Appointment as to be profes- aforesaid, that the same is an Office or Appointment for the due and efficient Discharge of the Duties of which Professional or other of Treasury to peculiar Qualifications, not ordinarily to be acquired in the Public Service, are required, and that it is in the Interest of the Public that Persons shall be appointed thereto at an Age exceeding that at which Public Service ordinarily begins; and further, with the Consent of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, to order and direct that when any Person now holding or to be hereafter appointed to such Office or Appointment, or any of such Class of Officers, shall retire from Public Service, a Number of Years, not exceeding Twenty, to be specified in such Order, shall, in computing the Amount of Superannuation Allowance which may be granted to him, be added to the Number of Years during which he may have actually served, and such Order shall have the same Effect, and shall be acted upon for the Purpose of ascertaining and awarding the Amount of such Superannuation Allowance as aforesaid, in the same Manner in all respects as if a like Declaration had been made by any Order or Warrant of the said Commissioners of the Treasury under the Provisions contained in Section Four of the Superannuation Act, 1859.”

Superannuation

be subject to Provisions of 22 Vict. c. 26.

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5. From and after the Time when any such Superannuation Allowance shall have been so ascertained and awarded as aforesaid, all the Provisions of the said Act of the Fourth and Fifth Years of King William the Fourth, as amended by the said "Superannuation Act, 1859," respectively, with respect to any Superannuation Allowances which may have been granted under the said Acts, and to the Persons entitled to receive such Superannuation Allowances, shall be applicable to the Superannuation Allowances so ascertained and awarded as aforesaid, and to the Persons entitled to receive the same, subject nevertheless to the special Provisions of this Act.

6. Nothing

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