Connaught Rangers (Pensions) Act, 1936

Disability pensions.

6.—Where a qualified person is suffering from a disablement caused by disease certified by the Minister to be attributable to the Mutiny or to circumstances directly arising out of the Mutiny and the degree of such disablement is at the date of his examination by the Army Pensions Board not less than eighty per cent. there may, in addition to a service pension or a service gratuity, be granted to such person a pension (in this Act referred to as a disability pension) payable during his life at, in case his army service is long service, the rate mentioned in the second column of the Second Schedule to this Act opposite the appropriate degree of disablement mentioned in the first column of that Schedule or, in case his army service is pre-1918 short service, the rate mentioned in the third column of that Schedule opposite to the appropriate degree of disablement mentioned in the said first column or, in case his Army service is post-1918 short service, the rate mentioned in the fourth column of that Schedule, opposite to the appropriate degree of disablement mentioned in the said first column.