Army Pensions Act, 1923
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Wounded officers and soldiers may be granted wound pensions. |
1.—(1) Every officer and every soldier who is discharged from the forces as medically unfit for further service and who is suffering from any of the disablements mentioned in the first column of the First Schedule of this Act may, if such disablement is due to a wound received on or after the 1st day of April, 1922, be granted, subject to the provisions of this Act, a wound pension at the rate mentioned in the appropriate column of the said First Schedule opposite to the degree of his disablement mentioned in the first column of that Schedule. | |
(2) Every officer and every soldier who is discharged from the forces as medically unfit for further service and who is suffering from any disablement not mentioned in the first column of the First Schedule to this Act may, if such disablement is due to a wound received on or after the 1st day of April, 1922, be granted, subject to the provisions of this Act, a wound pension at the rate mentioned in the appropriate column of the said First Schedule opposite the degree of disablement mentioned in the said first column of that Schedule which most closely corresponds to the disablement from which such officer or soldier is suffering as aforesaid. | ||
(3) Every officer and soldier who is discharged from the forces as medically unfit for further service, and who is suffering from a disablement, due to a wound received on or after the 1st day of April, 1922, but less in degree than any of the disablements mentioned in the first column of the First Schedule to this Act, may be granted a gratuity of such amount, not exceeding, in the case of an officer £100, or in the case of a soldier £60, as the Minister, having regard to all the circumstances of such officer or soldier, shall, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, determine. | ||
(4) This section applies to officers and soldiers who were so discharged as aforesaid before the passing of this Act as well as to officers and soldiers who shall be so discharged after the passing of this Act. |