Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) Act, 1952

Supplementary allowance in addition to certain pensions.

6.—(1) This section applies to a pension which was granted before the passing of this Act or is granted not more than three years after such passing and which is determined otherwise than as a proportion of the remuneration of the person concerned.

(2) The Board may, if it thinks fit, grant and pay, with effect from the date of the commencement of the pension or the 1st day of April, 1949, whichever is the later, by way of addition to a pension to which this section applies a supplementary allowance for life of such amount as the Board thinks proper having regard to all the circumstances, but subject to the limitations that such allowance shall not exceed the appropriate sum and that the total of the pension and supplementary allowance shall not exceed the maximum pension payable under the manual workers superannuation scheme.