Army Pensions Act, 1937

Pensions to former members of the forces in respect of wounds or disease aggravated, etc., by service.

28.—(1) Where—

(a) a person has been discharged from the forces before the date of the passing of this Act; and

(b) such person is not entitled to a pension under the Acts or the Acts as amended by this Act; and

(c) such person is at the date of his examination by the Army Pensions Board suffering from—

(i) a disablement (not being less in degree than twenty per cent.) due to a wound aggravated by—

(I) a wound attributable to service in the forces and received during the period (in this section referred to as the service period) commencing on the 1st day of April, 1922, and ending on the 30th day of September, 1924, while a member of the forces, or

(II) a disease attributable to service in the forces during the service period, or

(III) service in the forces during the service period, or

(ii) a disablement (not being less in degree than twenty per cent.) due to a disease aggravated by a wound attributable to service in the forces and received during the service period while a member of the forces, or

(iii) a disablement (not being less in degree than eighty per cent.) due to a disease aggravated by—

(I) a disease attributable to service in the forces during the service period, or

(II) service in the forces during the service period, or

(iv) a disablement (not being less in degree than twenty per cent.) due to a disease which was accelerated or excited by a wound attributable to service in the forces and received during the service period while a member of the forces, or

(v) a disablement (not being less in degree than eighty per cent.) due to a disease which was accelerated or excited by—

(I) a disease attributable to service in the forces during the service period, or

(II) service in the forces during the service period,

there may, if such disablement manifested itself before the 1st day of July, 1926, be granted to such person a pension at the rate mentioned in the second column of the Schedule to this Act opposite to the appropriate degree of disablement in the first column of that Schedule.

(2) Every application for a pension under this section shall be referred by the Minister to the Army Pensions Board.