Army Pensions Act, 1923

FIRST SCHEDULE.

Scale of Wound Pensions.

Degree of disablement

Specific injury

Proportion corresponding to degree of disablement

Wound pension payable to officer

Wound pension payable to non-commissioned officers and men

Further pension payable to married officers

Further pension payable to married non-commissioned officers and men

per cent.

£   per annum

s. per week

s. per week

s. per week

1

Loss of two or more limbs

100

200

42

15

10

Loss of both hands or of all fingers and thumbs

Total loss of sight

Wounds, injuries, or results of them, resulting in a disabled man being totally bedridden

Wounds of or injuries to internal, thoracic, or abdominal organs involving total permanent disablement

Total organic paralysis resulting from wounds or injuries to brain or spinal cord

2

Loss of an arm and one eye

90

180

37/9

13/6

9

Loss of a leg and one eye

Loss of a hand and a foot

Loss of one arm through shoulder

3

Loss of both feet

80

160

33/7

12

8

Amputation of leg at hip or below hip, with stump not exceeding 5 inches in length measured from tip of great trochanter; of right arm below shoulder, with stump not exceeding 6 inches measured from tip of acromion; or of left arm through shoulder

4

Lisfranc operation both feet

70–80

140–160

29/4–33/7

10/6–12

7–8

5

Amputation of leg below hip, with stump exceeding 5 inches in length measured from tip of great trochanter, but not below middle thigh; of left arm below shoulder, with stump not exceeding 6 inches measured from tip of acromion; or of right arm below shoulder, with stump, exceeding 6 inches, measured from tip of acromion, through elbow, or below elbow, with stump not exceeding 5 inches measured from tip of olecranon

70

140

29/4

10/6

7

6

Amputation of leg below middle thigh, through knee, or below knee with stump not exceeding 4 inches; of left arm below shoulder, with stump exceeding six inches measured from tip of acromion, through elbow, or below elbow, with stump not exceeding five inches measured from tip of olecranon; or of right arm below elbow, with stump exceeding five inches measured from tip of olecranon

60

120

25/2

9

6

7

Amputation of leg below knee, with stump exceeding four inches; or of left arm below elbow, with stump exceeding 5 inches measured from tip of olecranon

50

100

21

7/6

5

8

Loss of one eye, the result of G.S.W. or injury

40

80

16/9

6

4

Loss of thumb or of four fingers of right hand

40

80

16/9

6

4

Loss of thumb or of four fingers of left hand, or three fingers of right hand

30

60

12/7

4/6

3

Lisfranc operation, one foot

30

60

12/7

4/6

3

Loss of two fingers, either hand

20

40

8/4

3

2

Loss of all toes of one foot

20

40

8/4

3

2

Loss of all toes, both feet

20

40

8/4

3

2

Note.—In the case of left-handed men certified to be such, the compensation in respect of the left arm, hands, etc., will be the same as for a right arm, hand, etc., and vice versa.