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Service pensions.
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3.—(1) There may, subject to the provisions of this Act, be granted to a qualified person whose army service is long service, a pension (in this Act referred to as a long service pension) payable during his life.
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(2) A long service pension payable to any person shall be as follows, that is to say:—
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(a) in case such person did not at the date of the Mutiny hold the substantive rank of corporal or substantive higher non-commissioned rank, such pension shall consist of an allowance at the rate of two shillings and sevenpence halfpenny per day;
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(b) in case such person held at the date of the Mutiny the substantive rank of corporal, such pension shall consist of—
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(i) an allowance at the rate of two shillings and sevenpence halfpenny per day, and
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(ii) an additional allowance at the rate of one halfpenny per day for each complete year of his pensionable service during which he held the substantive rank of corporal;
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(c) in case such person held at the date of the Mutiny the substantive rank of sergeant or substantive higher non-commissioned rank, such pension shall consist of—
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(i) an allowance at the rate of two shillings and sevenpence halfpenny per day, and
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(ii) an additional allowance at the rate of one penny per day for each complete year of his pensionable service during which he held the substantive rank of sergeant or substantive higher non-commissioned rank, and
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(iii) an additional allowance at the rate of one halfpenny per day for each complete year (if any) of his British Army service preceding the Mutiny during which he held the substantive rank of corporal.
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(3) For the purposes of sub-section (2) of this section—
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(a) the pensionable service of a person shall be taken to be the sum of his army service and his period of notional service;
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(b) a person who at the date of the Mutiny held any substantive non-commissioned rank shall be deemed to have continued to have held that rank during the period commencing on the date of the Mutiny and ending at the expiration of his period of notional service;
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(c) in the case of a person who held at the date of the Mutiny the substantive rank of corporal, the number of complete years during which he held the substantive rank of corporal shall be taken to be the result obtained by dividing by three hundred and sixty-five a number equal to the number of days during which he held that substantive rank or a substantive higher non-commissioned rank, any fraction being disregarded;
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(d) in the case of a person who held at the date of the Mutiny the substantive rank of sergeant or a substantive higher non-commissioned rank—
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(i) the number of complete years during which he held the substantive rank of sergeant or substantive higher non-commissioned rank shall be taken to be the result obtained by dividing by three hundred and sixty-five a number equal to the number of days during which he held the substantive rank of sergeant or substantive higher non-commissioned rank, any fraction being disregarded, and
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(ii) the number of complete years (if any) during which he held the substantive rank of corporal shall be taken to be the result obtained by dividing by three hundred and sixty-five a number equal to the number of days during which he held the substantive rank of corporal, any fraction being disregarded.
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(4) There may, subject to the provisions of this Act, be granted to a qualified person whose army service is pre-1918 short service a pension (in this section referred to as a short service pension) payable during his life at the rate of ten shillings and sixpence per week.
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(5) The expression “a service pension” where it occurs in the subsequent provisions of this Act shall be construed as equivalent to the words “a long service pension or a short service pension”.
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