The Ministry of Finance may allow certain excluded adopted children to be treated as eligible for specified pensions if dependency and adoption-intent conditions are met.
Superannuation (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 1966 An Act to amend the law relating to superannuation and other benefits payable to or in respect of civil servants and relating to such benefits payable to or in respect of persons employed in more than one public office; to amend the provisions of the Judicial Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 1951, the County Courts Act (Northern Ireland) 1959 and the Resident Magistrates' Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 1960 relating to pensions payable to children; to apply certain provisions of the Superannuation Act (Northern Ireland) 1949 to clerks of the Crown and peace; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid. S. 1, with Schedule 1, effects amendments Ss. 2,3 rep. by 1967 c.24 (NI) There shall be paid out of the Consolidated Fund— Para.(a) rep. by 1967 c.24 (NI) any increase attributable to this Act in the sums to be so paid under any other Act. There shall be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament— Subs.(3) rep. by 1967 c.24 (NI) This Act may be cited as the Superannuation (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 1966 …. Subs.(2) rep. by 1967 c.24 (NI) In this Act— “the Ministry” means the Ministry of Finance; Definition rep. by 1967 c.24 (NI) Subs.(4) rep. by 1967 c.24 (NI) Commencement Paras.1‐8 rep. by 1967 c.24 (NI) Sub-paras.(1)(2) rep. by 1967 c.24 (NI) If the Ministry is satisfied that a person (in this sub-paragraph referred to as “the child” ) excluded from section 6(ii) of the Judicial Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 1951 or section 122(ii) of the County Courts Act (Northern Ireland) 1959 or section 4(ii) of the Resident Magistrates' Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 1960 because adopted after the termination of the marriage or civil partnership , or falling within section 8(3) of the Act of 1951 or section 124(3) of the Act of 1959 or section 6(3) of the Act of 1960 (which make an adopted child ineligible for a pension if adopted after the end of the relevant service), was before the termination of the marriage or civil partnership or, as the case may be, before the end of the relevant service, wholly or mainly dependent on the deceased person, and that the deceased person had before the termination of the marriage or civil partnership or, as the case may be, of the relevant service, formed the intention of adopting the child, the Ministry may direct that the said exclusion in section 6(ii) of the Act of 1951 or in section 122(ii) of the Act of 1959 or in section 4(ii) of the Act of 1960, or as the case may be, section 8(3) of the Act of 1951 or section 124(3) of the Act of 1959 or section 6(3) of the Act of 1960, shall not apply to the child. A direction may be given under this paragraph by reference to an event before the date of the coming into force of this Schedule, but not so as to authorise the payment, or increase, of an instalment of a pension in respect of a period falling before that date. Sub-para.(5) rep. by 1967 c.24 (NI) Paras.10-17 rep. by 1967 c.24 (NI) Para. 18 rep. by 1993 c. 8 Paras.19,20 rep. by 1967 c.24 (NI) Schedules 2,3 rep. by 1967 c.24 (NI) 1951 c.20 1959 c.25 1960 c.2 1967 c.24 (NI) Words in Sch. 1 para. 9(3) substituted (13.1.2020) by The Marriage (Same-sex Couples) and Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1514), regs. 1(2), 58 (with regs. 6-9)