Local Pensions Committees: Representative Minute Books and Registers of Correspondence...

AST 3

1908-1948

A representative selection of minute books and registers of claims of local Pensions committees and sub-committees passed to the National Assistance Board.

For Board of Inland Revenue and Board of Customs and Excise: Non Contributory Old Age Pensions see AST 15

Sample of appeals against local pension committees is in AST 4

Public Record(s)

English

47 volume(s)

No further accruals

The Old Age Pensions Act 1908 set up Local Pension Committees to determine claims, applications and questions under the Act, such committees having the power to appoint sub-committees. The central pension authority designated by the same Act, to which appeals against decisions of the committees and sub-committees might be referred, was the Local Government Board. In 1919 its functions were taken over by the Ministry of Health. The Old Age Pensions Act 1936 maintained this machinery.

The Old Age Pensions Consolidated Regulations 1922 (S.R & O 1921 No 2001) gave the central pension authority certain supervisory powers over the proceedings of the committees and sub-committees, including power to prescribe the form of the registers kept by Committee Clerks. The National Assistance Act 1948 abolished the local pension committees and transferred the functions and work of the Committees to the National Assistance Board.