Army Pensions (Increase) Act, 1964

Increase of disability pensions under section 10 of the Act of 1927.

7.—(1) The amount of a disability pension granted under subsection (1) of section 10 of the Act of 1927 to an officer discharged from the forces before the 16th day of December, 1959, shall be determined in accordance with the provisions set out in the Third Schedule to this Act.

(2) A disability pension granted under subsection (1) of section 10 of the Act of 1927 to a soldier suffering at the date of his discharge from the forces from a disablement caused by disease attributable to service in the forces during the April, 1922-September, 1924, period, and which is payable at the rate mentioned in column (3) of the Second Schedule to the Increase Act of 1962 at a particular reference number, shall be payable at the increased rate mentioned in column (3) of the Second Schedule to this Act at the corresponding reference number.

(3) A disability pension granted under subsection (1) of section 10 of the Act of 1927 to a soldier who was at the date of his discharge from the forces suffering from a disablement caused by disease attributable to service in the forces during the emergency period and which is payable at the rate mentioned in column (3) of the Second Schedule to the Increase Act of 1962 at a particular reference number shall be payable at the increased rate mentioned in column (3) of the Second Schedule to this Act at the corresponding reference number.

(4) The First Schedule (which specifies the scales and rates of disability pensions payable under section 10 of the Act of 1927 to officers and soldiers and members of the Army Nursing Service suffering from disease attributable to service with a United Nations Force) to the No. 2 Act of 1960, as amended by section 8 of the Increase Act of 1962, is hereby further amended—

(a) by the substitution for Part II of the following—

“PART II.

Soldiers.

Degree of Disablement

Rates of Disability Pension per week

£

s.

d.

100

per

cent.

4

17

6

90

4

11

0

80

4

1

6

and

(b) by the substitution for Part IV of the following—

“PART IV.

Members of the Army Nursing Service.

Degree of Disablement

Scale of pension per annum

£

s.

d.

100

per

cent.

255

0

0

90

239

0

0

80

213

0

0

.”