Army Pensions (Increase) Act, 1962
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Increase of wound pensions under section 1 of the Act of 1923. |
2.—(1) A wound pension granted under section 1 of the Act of 1923 to an officer discharged from the forces before the 1st day of October, 1924, which under the Acts is payable at the rate mentioned in column (2) of the First Schedule to this Act at a particular reference number shall be payable at the increased rate mentioned in column (3) of that Schedule at that reference number. | |
(2) The amount of a wound pension granted under section 1 of the Act of 1923 to an officer discharged from the forces on or after the 1st day of October, 1924, and before the 2nd day of November, 1955, shall be the amount which would be payable to such officer in respect of such wound pension under the Acts if— | ||
(a) he had been discharged from the forces on the 2nd day of November, 1955, | ||
(b) his rank and service in that rank on that date were the same as those on the date of his actual discharge, and | ||
(c) the scale of pension applicable to him were the appropriate scale contained in the Tables to subsection (2) of section 4 of the Act of 1957, increased by six per cent. | ||
(3) Subsection (2) of this section shall not apply in the case of an officer discharged from the forces on the 18th day of December, 1954. | ||
(4) A wound pension granted under section 1 of the Act of 1923 to a soldier which is payable at the rate mentioned in column (3) of the Second Schedule to the Increase Act of 1961 at a particular reference number shall be payable at the increased rate mentioned in column (3) of the Second Schedule to this Act at the corresponding reference number. |