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Pension
Pension, an annual allowance made to any one, usually in consideration of past services.By the (English) Succession to the Crown Act, 1707, (6 Anne, c. 7) (c. 41 in the Revised Statutes), and 1 Geo. 1, st. 2, c. 56, no person having a pension under the Crown during pleasure, or for any term of years, is capable of being elected or sitting in the House of Commons.Old Age Pension.--The (English) Old Age Pensions Act, 1908, which was not on a contributory basis, gave to every person the right to a pension who fulfilled certain conditions. The Act, with the amending (English) Old Age Pensions Acts, 1911, 1919 and 1924, has been repealed by the (English) Consolidating Old Age Pensions Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5 and 1 Edw. 8, c. 31). These conditions are contained in s. 2 of the Act of 1936, as follows:-2. The statutory conditions for the receipt of an old age pension by any person are--(1)The person must have attained the age of seventy, or in the case of a blind person, the age of fifty.(2)The p...
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