Connaught Rangers (Pensions) Act, 1936

Double disablement.

7.—Where—

(a) a person is suffering from a disablement (in this section referred to as the disease disablement) caused by a disease the degree of which is less than eighty per cent. and the circumstances are such that such person could be granted a disability pension in respect of the disease disablement if the degree of disablement had equalled or exceeded eighty per cent., and

(b) such person is also suffering from a disablement (in this section referred to as the wound disablement) caused by a wound in respect of which he could be granted a wound pension, or could, if the degree of disablement had equalled or exceeded twenty per cent., be granted a wound pension,

then, for the purposes of the two immediately preceding sections the following provisions shall have effect, that is to say:—

(i) the degree of his disablement shall be the sum total of the degree of the disease disablement and the degree of the wound disablement,

(ii) if the said sum total exceeds one hundred per cent., the degree of disablement shall be reckoned as one hundred per cent.,

(iii) the whole of his disablement shall be deemed to have been caused by the wound.