Army Pensions Act, 1932
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Reference of applications to the Registration Board. |
8.—(1) Every application for the grant under this Part of this Act of a pension or gratuity to or an allowance or gratuity in respect of a person alleged to have been a member of an organisation to which this Part of this Act applies shall (notwithstanding anything contained in Section 7 of the Act of 1927) be referred by the Minister to the Registration Board, and thereupon the Registration Board shall ascertain and certify to the Minister the following particulars in respect of such person, that is to say:— | |
(a) whether such person was a member of any and, if so, which of the said organisations, and | ||
(b) whether such person was engaged in military service and, if so, the prescribed particulars of such service, and | ||
(c) whether such person received a wound while engaged in military service and, if so, the prescribed particulars of such wound and, if such person is dead, the date of his death, and | ||
(d) whether such person contracted any disease during his military service and, if so, the prescribed particulars of such disease, and if such person is dead, the date of his death, and | ||
(e) if such person is dead, whether he was killed while engaged in military service and, if so, the prescribed particulars of the circumstances of his death, and | ||
(f) such other particulars in respect of such person as the Minister may request the Registration Board to ascertain and certify. | ||
(2) Every certificate (in this Act referred to as a service certificate) issued by the Registration Board to the Minister in pursuance of this section shall be in the prescribed form and shall be final and conclusive evidence for the purposes of this Part of this Act of the matters of fact certified therein. |