Army Pensions (No. 2) Act, 1960

Pensions in respect of disease aggravated, etc., by service with a United Nations Force.

7.—(1) Where—

(a) whether before or after the passing of this Act, a person has been discharged from the forces or the service of a member of the Army Nursing Service or of a member of the Chaplaincy Service has terminated, and

(b) such person or member is not entitled to a pension under the Acts or by virtue of this Act, and

(c) such person or member is, at the date of his examination by the Army Pensions Board, suffering from a disablement (not being less in degree than eighty per cent.) due to disease aggravated, accelerated or excited by—

(i) a wound attributable to service with a United Nations Force, or

(ii) a disease attributable to service with a United Nations Force, or

(iii) service with a United Nations Force,

there may be granted to such person or member a pension at the rate mentioned in the second column of the Table to this section opposite to the appropriate degree of disablement in the first column of that Table.

(2) Every application for a pension under this section shall be referred by the Minister to the Army Pensions Board.

(3) The following provisions shall have effect in relation to applications for pensions under this section:

(a) every application shall be made to the Minister within eight years from the date of discharge or termination of membership, as the case may be,

(b) every application shall be in such form and contain such particulars as the Minister may direct.

(4) A pension granted to a person under this section shall commence on such day (not being earlier than the date of discharge or termination of membership, as the case may be, or the date of the passing of this Act, whichever is the later) as the Minister may determine.

(5) Section 6 and sections 9 to 14 of the Act of 1923, sections 21 and 23 of the Act of 1927 and subsection (2) of section 27 and section 31 of the Army Pensions Act, 1937 , shall apply in respect of pensions under this section, persons who are or who claim to be entitled to such pensions, persons to whom such pensions are granted and persons applying for such pensions as if such pensions were the pensions mentioned in those sections respectively.

TABLE

Rates of Pensions.

Degree of Disablement

Pension

per cent.

per annum

£

s.

d.

100

191

10

0

90

172

0

0

80

153

10

0