Resolution reported, That it is expedient—

(1) to amend the Superannuation Acts, 1834 to 1919, and to make provision out of moneys to he provided by Parliament in respect of—

1. (a) the application of the Superannuation Act, 1909, to female civil servants;
2. (b) pensions to spouses or dependants of civil servants in return for the surrender by such civil servants of part of certain annual superannuation allowances;
3. (c) the reckoning of service in an un-established capacity;
4. (d) the alteration in certain eases of the amount of salary and emoluments upon which superannuation payments in respect of service in the Civil Service are to be computed, and of the scale on which additional allowances under Section one of the Superannuation Act, 1909, are to he computed;
5. (e) the abolition of certain statutory restrictions on granting superannuation allowances at the full rate to civil servants;
6. (f) the reduction to fifty-five years of the age on retirement at which without a medical certificate superannuation allowances may be granted to a certain class of civil servants who have been members of His Majesty's consular service in China;
7. (g) further superannuation payments to or in respect of persons transferred from the Civil Service to approved employment within the meaning of Section four of the Superannuation Act, 1914;
8. (h) superannuation payments in respect of service in the Civil Service to persons who, having been civil servants, retire from the service of certain local authorities; and superannuation payments in respect of service in the Civil Service to or in respect of persons who, having been in the service of certain local authorities, retire from or die while in the Civil Service;
9. (i) the application of the Superannuation (Prison Officers) Act, 1919, to certain officers employed in institutions maintained by the Board of Control;
10. (j) any amendment of Section one of the Superannuation Act, 1887;
11. (k) the increase of certain allowances and gratuities which have been or may hereafter be granted by the Treasury to or in respect of persons who have been employed in the Civil Service in so far as such allowances and gratuities have been or may be calculated by reference to any bonus paid under a scheme approved by, or otherwise under the authority of, the Treasury;
12. (l) any consequential amendment of certain enactments in so far as they refer to the Superannuation Acts, 1834 to 1919, or to enactments contained in those Acts; and
13. (m) the modification or revocation of the rules made under Section six of the 146 Superannuation Act, 1887, as modified under any subsequent Act;

(2) to provide for entitling or qualifying persons who, having been in the employment of certain local authorities, retire from the Civil Service, to receive from such local authorities certain payments in respect of that employment, and for modifying in connection therewith enactments and schemes relating to the superannuation of officers and servants of local authorities; and

(3) to provide for other matters connected with the matters aforesaid."

Bill ordered to be brought in upon the said Resolution by the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mr. Duff Cooper.