Army Pensions (No. 2) Act, 1960
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Amendment of section 10 of the Act of 1927. |
3.—(1) Section 10 (which provides for the grant of disability pensions in certain cases) of the Act of 1927, as extended by subsection (1) of section 4 of the Act of 1943 to members of the Army Nursing Service, shall have effect in relation to every person who is discharged from the forces or whose service in the Army Nursing Service is terminated (whether before or after the passing of this Act) as if, in subsection (1), after “during the emergency period” (inserted by section 3 of the Act of 1943) there were inserted “or with a United Nations Force”, subject to the modifications that, in relation to disablement caused by disease attributable to service with a United Nations Force— | |
(a) the reference in that subsection to four years shall be construed as a reference to eight years, and | ||
(b) the scales and rates of pensions shall be those specified in that behalf in those provisions of the First Schedule to this Act which are applicable. | ||
(2) Every application for a pension under section 10 of the Act of 1927, as amended by this section, shall be made before the expiration of eight years from the date of discharge or termination of service, as the case may be. | ||
(3) Every pension granted under section 10 of the Act of 1927, as amended by this section, shall commence from such date (not being earlier than the date of discharge or termination of service, as the case may be, or the date on which the disability is found by the Army Pensions Board to have reached the minimum degree of disablement, whichever is the later) as the Minister may determine. |