Snippets from The Reduced Law Dictionary by Roderick Ramage
Death in service and TUPE
Typically a pension scheme provides a death in service benefit, a lump sum of one to four times salary and often a pension for surviving dependants. As occupational schemes close, money purchase as well as final salary, the number of stand-alone DIS schemes has increased. By a quirk of translating European law into English (Pensions Act 2004, s255) a stand-alone DIS scheme is not an occupational scheme. Therefore a benefit which, if given in an occupational scheme, is exempt from transfer under TUPE, is not exempt if given under a stand-alone scheme. So beware of the grieving widow with her babe-in-arms.
Grey squirrels
The Grey Squirrels (Prohibition of Importation and Keeping) Order 1937 made under s10 of the Destructive Imported Animals Act 1931, prohibited the importation and keeping of the grey squirrel. While this Act dealt with musk rats, by s10, it extends the power of the Minister and SoS “with respect to animals of any non indigenous mammalian species that by reason
