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NAVAL MEDICAL COMPASSIONATE FUND ACT 1915

NAVAL MEDICAL COMPASSIONATE FUND ACT 1915 - LONG TITLE

An Act to make further and better provision with regard to the
Naval Medical Compassionate Fund.
[16th March 1915]
PS0800[WHEREAS under an Order in Council dated the thirteenth day of
August, 1817, the Naval Medical Supplemental Fund Society was
established for the relief of widows of medical officers in the
Royal Navy:

And Whereas it was provided in that Order that if any bequest or
donations should be made in favour of the society, the principal
amount thereof should be reserved separately as a compassionate fund,
and that the interest should be distributed... among the orphans of
deceased members thereof ....

And Whereas in pursuance of the Naval Medical Supplemental Fund
Society Winding-Up Act, 1861, the society has been wound-up, but
that Act provided that notwithstanding the winding-up of the society
the above-mentioned compassionate fund should continue, but on a
voluntary instead of a compulsory basis....

And Whereas the said Act made no provision for the future
management of the said fund, but the said fund has in fact
remained under the management of a body consisting of the Secretary
to the Admiralty, the Medical Director-General of the Navy, and
certain medical naval officers who have contributed to the fund, and
now consists of the sum of ten thousand six hundred pounds two and
a half per centum consolidated stock:

And Whereas it is expedient to make provision for the management of
the said fund and to alter the terms of contribution thereto and
the nature of the benefits therefrom in manner hereinafter
appearing:]

NAVAL MEDICAL COMPASSIONATE FUND ACT 1915 - SECT 1
Power by Order in Council to regulate fund.

1.(1) His Majesty may by Order in Council provide

(a)for constituting new trustees of the said fund and for vesting
the fund in such trustees;

(b)for filling vacancies in the office of trustee and for vesting
the fund in the trustees for the time being without conveyance or
assignment;

(c)for vesting the management of the fund, the determination of the
persons to receive benefits therefrom, and the distribution thereof
amongst such persons, in such body as may be determined by the
Order, being a body representative of the naval medical service,
either with or without the addition of representatives of the
[Secretary of State];

(d)for enabling all persons who are or who may hereafter become
naval medical officers, or who may at any time have been naval
medical officers, to become subscribers to the fund;

(e)for determining the terms of subscription and the manner and time
of payment thereof;

(f)for making eligible to benefits from the fund the widows and
orphans of all persons who at the time of the making of the Order
may have contributed to the fund, and, subject to such conditions
as may be prescribed by the Order, of persons who may after that
date have become subscribers to the fund;

(2) An Order in Council under this Act may be altered or revoked
by a subsequent Order in Council.

Subs.(3) rep. by SLR 1927

NAVAL MEDICAL COMPASSIONATE FUND ACT 1915 - SECT 2
Short title.

2. This Act may be cited as the Naval Medical Compassionate Fund
Act, 1915.

Schedule rep. by SLR 1927