Army Pensions Act, 1927

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Temporary incapacity of member of Army Pensions Board.

6.—(1) Whenever the chairman or an ordinary member of the Army Pensions Board is through ill-health or other sufficient cause temporarily incapacitated from performing his duties as such chairman or member, the Minister may, if he so thinks fit, appoint another person to be chairman or an ordinary member (as the case may be) of the Army Pensions Board in the place of the chairman or ordinary member so incapacitated for so long as such incapacity continues.

(2) Every person appointed under this section in the place of an ordinary member of the Army Pensions Board shall possess the same qualifications as are required by this Act to be possessed by the ordinary member in whose place he is so appointed.

(3) No appointment under this section of a person in the place of the chairman of the Army Pensions Board or of the ordinary member of the said Board who is not an officer of the Army Medical Service shall be made without the concurrence of the Minister for Finance.