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NAVAL AND MILITARY WAR PENSIONS &C. ACT 1915

NAVAL AND MILITARY WAR PENSIONS &C. ACT 1915 - LONG TITLE

An Act to make better provision as to the pensions, grants, and
allowances made in respect of the present war to officers and men
in the Naval and Military Service of His Majesty and their
dependants, and the care of officers and men disabled in consequence
of the present war{1}, and for purposes connected therewith.{2}
[10th November 1915]
Ss.1, 2 rep. by 1917 c.37 s.5(2) sch.; SLR 1927

NAVAL AND MILITARY WAR PENSIONS &C. ACT 1915 - SECT 3
Functions of Statutory Committee.

3.(1) The functions of the Statutory Committee shall be

(a)to decide any question of fact on the determination of which the
amount of a pension or grant payable out of public funds to a
dependant, other than a widow or child, may depend;

(b)to frame regulations for supplementary grants in cases where,
owing to the exceptional circumstances of the case, the pension or
grant or separation allowance payable out of public funds seems to
the Committee to be inadequate;

(c)out of funds at their disposal, to supplement pensions and grants
and separation allowances payable out of public funds, so, however,
that no such supplementary grant shall be made except in accordance
with such regulations as aforesaid;

(d)out of funds at their disposal, to make grants or allowances in
cases where no separation allowances or pensions are payable out of
public funds;

(e)out of funds at their disposal, to make advances on account of
pensions or grants or separation allowances due to any persons, out
of public funds during any interval before the payment thereof
actually commences, or during which the payment thereof has been
accidentally interrupted;

(f)to decide, in any particular case, whether, as respects a wife,
widow, child, or other dependant, any pension or grant or separation
allowance and, as respects an officer or man, any supplementary
grant has, under the regulations subject to which it was granted,
become forfeited;

(g)to decide, as between two or more claimants to any pension or
grant or separation allowance, which, if any, of the claimants is
entitled thereto;

(h)to determine any other questions in relation to pensions or
grants or separation allowances which may be referred to the
Committee by the [Defence Council];

Para.(i) rep. by 1917 c.37 s.5(2) sch.

(j)to make provision for the care of disabled officers and men
after they have left the service, including provision for their
health, training, and employment;

(k)to make grants in special cases for the purpose of enabling
widows, children, and other dependants of deceased officers and men
to obtain training and employment.

Subs.(2)(7) rep. by 1917 c.37 s.5(2) sch.; SLR 1927

Provisions as to Corporation.

NAVAL AND MILITARY WAR PENSIONS &C. ACT 1915 - SECT 6

6.(1) Any lord mayor or mayor... who is as such a member of the
Corporation may, if he is unable or unwilling to act as a member
thereof, appoint some other person in his place to be a member of
the Corporation; and any person so appointed shall hold office so
long as the person by whom he is appointed holds his office as
lord mayor, mayor...

(2) In addition to the persons whom the general council of the
Corporation may co-opt under the Patriotic Fund (Reorganisation) Act,
1903, the council may co-opt as members thereof any number (not
exceeding thirteen) of persons having special experience in work of
the character to be performed by the Corporation; but in exercising
this power of co-option the council shall include some women as
well as men amongst the members so co-opted.

Subs.(3) rep. by 1917 c.37 s.5(2) sch.

(4) The purposes of this Act shall be included amongst the purposes
for which the Corporation may solicit and receive contributions from
the public and donations of property.

(5) Save as otherwise expressly provided, nothing in this Act shall
affect the constitution or powers and duties of the Corporation.

NAVAL AND MILITARY WAR PENSIONS &C. ACT 1915 - SECT 7
Short title.

7. This Act may be cited as the Naval and Military War Pensions,
&c., Act, 1915.