Army Pensions Act, 1927

Wound pensions and gratuities in certain other cases.

12.—(1) Every person who is discharged from the forces on or after the 1st day of October, 1924 (whether before or after the passing of this Act) and is at the date of such discharge suffering from a disablement due to a wound attributable to his service in the forces and received on or after the 1st day of October, 1923 (whether before or after the passing of this Act) while he was a member of the forces may, if the degree of such disablement is at the date of his examination by the Army Pensions Board or on behalf of the Minister (as the case may be) not less than twenty per cent., be granted a wound pension at the rate specified in that behalf in those provisions of the Third Schedule to this Act which are applicable to the case of such person.

(2) If a person to whom a pension is granted under this section was at the date on which he received the wound, in the case of an officer, a married man for the purposes of this Act or, in the case of a soldier, in receipt of marriage allowance as a married soldier and, in any case, is at the commencement of such pension a married man for the purposes of this Act then he shall for so long after such commencement as he continues to be a married man for the purposes of this Act be entitled to be paid and to receive a married pension at the rate specified in that behalf in those provisions of the Third Schedule to this Act which are applicable to his case.

(3) Every pension granted under this section shall, in the case of a person who is discharged from the forces on the date of or after the passing of this Act, commence from the date of such discharge or, in the case of a person who is discharged from the forces before the date of the passing of this Act, commence from such date not earlier than the day next after the date of such discharge nor later than the date of the passing of this Act as the Minister, having regard to all the circumstances of the case, shall determine.

(4) Every person who is discharged from the forces on or after the 1st day of October, 1924 (whether before or after the passing of this Act) and is at the date of his discharge suffering from a disablement due to a wound attributable to his service in the forces and received on or after the 1st day of October, 1923 (whether before or after the passing of this Act) while he was a member of the forces may, if the degree of such disablement is at the date of his examination by the Army Pensions Board or on behalf of the Minister (as the case may be) less than twenty per cent., be granted—

(a) in the case of a person who immediately before his discharge from the forces is an officer, a gratuity of such amount, not exceeding eighty pounds, as the Minister having regard to all the circumstances of the case shall with the consent of the Minister for Finance determine, together with a further gratuity calculated at the rate of five pounds for each completed year of such person's service in the forces, or

(b) in the case of a person who immediately before his discharge from the forces is a soldier, a gratuity of such amount, not exceeding forty pounds, as the Minister having regard to all the circumstances of the case shall with the consent of the Minister for Finance determine, together with a further gratuity calculated at the rate of two pounds and ten shillings for each completed year of such person's service in the forces.

(5) In the case of a person who at the date of his discharge from the forces is suffering from any of the disablements mentioned in the first column of the Fourth Schedule to this Act, the degree of such person's disablement for the purposes of this section shall be the degree set out in the second column of that Schedule opposite to the disablement from which such person is so suffering.

(6) In the case of a person who at the date of his discharge from the forces is suffering from a disablement not mentioned in the first column of the Fourth Schedule to this Act, the degree of such person's disablement for the purposes of this section shall, if the wound to which the disablement is due was received before the 1st day of October, 1924, be the degree assessed in that behalf by the Army Pensions Board and, if such wound was received on or after the 1st day of October, 1924, be the degree assessed in that behalf by the Minister.