Military Service Pensions Act, 1934

SECOND SCHEDULE.

Rules for Calculating Amount of Pensions under this Act.

1.—(1) For the purposes of this Rule—

(a) each of the periods set out in the second column of the Appendix to this Rule shall be a service period, and

(b) the appropriate pensionable service for any service period shall be the length of time set out in the third column of the said Appendix opposite the mention of such service period.

(2) For the purposes of Rule 3 of this Schedule the pensionable service of a person shall be calculated in accordance with the following provisions, that is to say:—

(a) subject to sub-paragraph (c) of this paragraph, there shall be credited to such person, in respect of every service period during the whole of which such person served in the Forces, the appropriate pensionable service for such service period,

(b) subject to sub-paragraph (c) of this paragraph, there shall be credited to such person, in respect of every service period during part only of which such person served in the Forces, such length of pensionable service as bears to the appropriate pensionable service for such service period the same proportion as the length of his service in the Forces during such service period bears to the length of such service period.

(c) Where a person did not serve in the Forces during any part of the service period mentioned at reference No. 1 in the Appendix to this Rule, but did serve during the whole or any part of the service period mentioned at reference No. 2 in the said Appendix, such person shall, for the purposes of the two immediately preceding sub-paragraphs, be deemed not to have served in the Forces at any time during the last mentioned service period,

(d) the pensionable service of such person shall be the sum of the several lengths of pensionable service with which such person is to be credited in accordance with the preceding sub-paragraphs of this paragraph.

APPENDIX.

Ref. No.

Service Period

Appropriate Pensionable Service

(1)

(2)

(3)

1

The week commencing on the 23rd day of April, 1916.

4 years.

2

The period comprising:—

(a) the period commencing on the 1st day of April, 1916, and ending on the 22nd day of April, 1916, and

(b) the period commencing on the 30th day of April, 1916, and ending on the 31st day of March, 1917.

1 year.

3

The period commencing on the 1st day of April, 1917, and ending on the 31st day of March, 1918.

½ year.

4

The period commencing on the 1st day of April, 1918, and ending on the 31st day of March, 1919.

½ year.

5

The period commencing on the 1st day of April, 1919, and ending on the 31st day of March, 1920.

1 year.

6

The period commencing on the 1st day of April, 1920, and ending on the 31st day of March, 1921.

2 years.

7

The period commencing on the 1st day of April, 1921, and ending on the 11th day of July, 1921.

1 year.

8

The period commencing on the 12th day of July, 1921, and ending on the 30th day of June, 1922.

1 year.

9

The period commencing on the 1st day of July, 1922, and ending on the 31st day of March, 1923.

2 years.

10

The period commencing on the 1st day of April, 1923, and ending on the 30th day of September, 1923.

1 year.

2. For the purposes of these rules the rate per annum appropriate to any grade of rank specified in the first column of the Appendix to this Rule shall be the rate per annum set out in the second column of the said Appendix opposite the mention of such grade of rank.

APPENDIX.

Grade of Rank

Appropriate Rate per Annum

(1)

(2)

Rank A.

£25 per annum.

Rank B.

£20 per annum.

Rank C.

£15 per annum.

Rank D.

£10 per annum.

Rank E.

£5 per annum.

3. The amount of a pension payable to a person in respect of whom a service certificate has been issued shall be as follows:—

(a) in case such person was a member of the Irish Volunteer Executive at any time prior to the 11th day of July, 1921, an amount calculated at the rate of twenty-five pounds per annum in respect of every year or part of a year of his pensionable service;

(b) in case the preceding paragraph is not applicable to such person and such person served in the Forces on both the first critical date and the second critical date and such person held, by virtue of sub-paragraph (j) of paragraph (3) of Rule 1 of the First Schedule to this Act, on one of those dates Rank C and did not hold on the other of such dates a grade of rank higher than Rank B, an amount calculated at the rate of twenty pounds per annum in respect of every year or part of a year of his pensionable service;

(c) in case neither of the preceding paragraphs is applicable to such person and such person did not serve in the Forces on the first critical date and such person held on the second critical date by virtue of sub-paragraph (f) of paragraph (3) of Rule 1 of the First Schedule to this Act, Rank C, an amount calculated at the rate of twenty pounds per annum in respect of every year or part of a year of his pensionable service;

(d) in case none of the preceding paragraphs are applicable to such person and such person served in the Forces on both the first critical date and the second critical date and held by virtue of sub-paragraph (m) of paragraph (4) of Rule 1 of the First Schedule to this Act, on one of those dates Rank D, but did not hold on the other of such dates a grade of rank higher than Rank C, an amount calculated at the rate of fifteen pounds per annum in respect of every year or part of a year of his pensionable service;

(e) in case none of the preceding paragraphs are applicable to such person and such person did not serve in the Forces on the first critical date and such person held on the second critical date, by virtue of sub-paragraph (m) of paragraph (4) of Rule 1 of the First Schedule to this Act, Rank D, an amount calculated at the rate of fifteen pounds per annum in respect of every year or part of a year of his pensionable service;

(f) in case none of the preceding paragraphs are applicable to such person and such person served in the Forces on both the first critical date and the second critical date and held the same grade of rank on both dates, an amount calculated at the rate per annum which is the rate per annum appropriate to such grade of rank, in respect of each year or part of a year of his pensionable service;

(g) in case none of the preceding paragraphs are applicable to such person and such person served in the Forces on both the first critical date and the second critical date and held different grades of rank on the said dates, an amount calculated at the rate per annum, which is the rate per annum appropriate to the higher of such grades of rank, in respect of each year or part of a year of his pensionable service;

(h) in case none of the preceding paragraphs are applicable to such person and such person did not serve in the Forces on the first critical date, an amount calculated at the rate per annum which is the rate per annum appropriate to the grade of rank held by him on the second critical date in respect of each year or part of a year of his pensionable service.