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New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land Act 1840 or the New Zealand Government Act 1840. ... High Court of Admiralty (England) Act 1840. 3 & 4 Vict. c. 66. 7 August 1840.
The three pension lists of England, Scotland and Ireland were consolidated in 1830, and the civil pension list reduced to finance the remainder of the pensions being charged on the Consolidated Fund. In 1887 Charles Bradlaugh MP protested strongly against the payment of perpetual pensions, and as a result a committee of the House of Commons ...
Lord Byron is often said to have received a civil list pension, but his mother was the actual recipient. [17]) As of 1911, a sum of £1,200 was allotted each year from the Civil List, in addition to the pensions already in force. From a Return issued in 1908, the total of Civil List pensions payable in that year amounted to £24,665.
a third class pension not exceeding £800 a year, in respect of service of not less than ten years in an office of the third class. [1] The service need not be continuous, and the act makes provision for counting service in lower classes as a qualification for pension in a higher class.
A pensioner is a person who receives a pension, most commonly because of retirement from the workforce. [1] This is a term typically used in the United Kingdom (along with OAP, initialism of old-age pensioner), Ireland and Australia where someone of pensionable age may also be referred to as an 'old age pensioner'.
An Act to enable Her Majesty to grant Furlough Allowances to the Bishops of Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay who shall return to Europe for a limited Period after residing in India a sufficient Time to entitle them to the highest Scale of Pension. (Repealed by Government of India Act 1915 (5 & 6 Geo. 5. c. 61))
There had been a long practice beginning in the Roman empire to the modern nation states of providing pension to those who had served in the military. [2]Cotton Mather, the 18th century New England Puritan minister and author, proposed that elderly people should be "pleased with the retirement which you are dismissed into".
The State Pension is an existing welfare benefit that forms part of the United Kingdom Government's pension arrangements. Benefits vary depending on the age of the individual and their contribution record. Currently anyone can make a claim, provided they have a minimum number of qualifying years of contributions.