Golden Bull winners 1982

• The Chief Insurance Officer at the Department of Health and Social Security for two letters, including a 143 word sentence

'From and including 26.2.81 an additional component is payable at the weekly rate of 5p which is the rate appropriate to 1¼% of the amount of the surpluses in the earnings factors for 3 years in the claimant's working life after reduction on account of his guaranteed minimum pension of £2.04 (the guaranteed minimum pension was originally notified to the claimant as £1.99 and has subsequently been amended to £2.04) (Social Security Pensions Act 1975 Section 6 and 29 (1) and the Social Secutiry (Earnings Factor) Regulations reg 2 and the Schedule) and graduated retirement benefit at the weekly rate of £2.37 (£2.58 from 26.2.81) which is the amount appropriate to 67 units of graudated contributions paid or treated as paid by the claimant (National Insurance Act 1965 Section 36 and the Social Secutiry (Graduated Retirement Benefit) (No.2) Regulations reg 3 (3) and Schedule 1).'

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• Manchester Co-operative Insurance Society for a life assurance policy

'Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary it is declared that the tables of sums assured above are hereby amended by substituting for the respective sums appearing in the columns headed 'Sum Assured' the sum of £1000 reduced by not more than the amount of principal that would have been repaid at the number of years in force of the policy on account of a principal sum of £1000 advanced for the term of the policy at a rate of interest of fifteen per cent per annum and repayable by equal annual instalments including principal and interest.'

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• Mental Health Review Tribunal for a letter (text not available)

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• Thorn EMI for a safety leaflet

'Certain of the components comprising our electrical appliances have inherent characteristics the effect of which, whether before or after such components have been introduced into appliances or during such introduction, make it desirable, in the interests of safety, for the introduction of spare components into, and/or the repair of, our appliances to be carried out by a competent person. The parts now supplied are done so on the clear understanding that such introduction and/or repair will not be otherwise interfered with beyond the extent of normal cleaning as recommended in the operating instructions, and that no liability attaches to Thorn EMI Domestic Electrical Appliances Limited for any damage or personal injury from such introduction and/or repair.'

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• West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive for a letter

'I refer to your recent letter in which you submit a request for the provision of a bus passenger shelter in Lidgett Lane at the inward stopping place for Service 31 adjacent to Gledhow Primary School. The stated requirement for a shelter at this location has been noted, but as you may be aware shelter erection at all locations within West Yorkshire has been constrained in recent times as a result of instructions issued by the West Yorkshire Metropolitan County Council in the light of the Government's cuts in public expenditure and, although it seems likely that the Capital Budget for shelter provision will be enhanced in the forthcoming Financial Year, it is axiomatic that residual requests in respect of prospective shelter sites identified as having priority, notably those named in earlier programmes of shelter erection, will take precedence in any future shelter programme.'

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• Our host Lord Denning also gave a personal Golden Bull to the Chief Parliamentary Draughtsman for section 38 (sub-section 4) of the Criminal Justice Act 1982

'An enactment in which section 31 (6) and (7) of the Criminal Law Act (1977) (pre-1949) enactments produced the same fine of maximum fine for different convictions shall be treated for the purposes of this section as if there were omitted from it so much of it as before 29th July, 1977, had the effect that a person guilty of an offence under it was liable on summary conviction to a fine or maximum fine less than the highest fine or maximum fine to which he would have been liable if his conviction had satisfied the conditions required for the imposition of the highest fine or maximum fine.'

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