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DEVELOPMENTS IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY

 
Local Government and Other Officers' Superannuation Act 1922
 
Excluding those officers and servants already covered by the 1896 Act, the 1922 Act allowed a local authority to provide pensions for employees holding posts that it ‘designated’ as falling within the Act’s provisions. Commonly most designated employees were salaried officers, although servants were not excluded.
 
The 1922 Act finally required a separate superannuation fund to be established and for employer contributions to be paid into it. Other changes to the 1896 Act were: 
  • Employees’ contributions set at 5%;
  • A pension of 1/60th per year of local authority service and 1/120th per year of local authority service during which no contributions were paid;
  • A refund of contributions upon resignation (where no pension was due) or upon death;
  • The introduction of Inter-fund transfers;
  • A pension that was not liable to reduction upon re-employment by a local authority.
 
Local Government Superannuation Act 1937
 
The 1937 Act came into effect from 1st April 1939. It provided a compulsory pension scheme for whole-time local government officers who were able to complete ten years’ service by the age of 65. Servants, or manual workers, were only eligible at their employer’s discretion.
 
The 1937 Act introduced:
  • A 6% officer’s contribution rate (unless protected at the 5% rate under the previous Act);
  • The reduction of pension upon re-employment with a local authority (unless protected by the 1922 Act);
  • The terms ‘administering authority’ and ‘employing authority’
  • A method of appeal to a Government Minister for an aggrieved member or pensioner;
  • Formal Local Government Pension legislation.