Army Pensions Act, 1927
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Disability pensions in certain other cases. |
10.—(1) Every person who is discharged from the forces on or after the 1st day of October, 1924 (whether before or after the passing of this Act), and is at the date of his discharge suffering from a disablement caused by disease attributable to service in the forces during the period which commenced on the 1st day of April, 1922, and ended on the 30th day of September, 1924, may, if the degree of such disablement (otherwise than by reason of the serious negligence or misconduct of such person) is at the date of his examination by the Army Pensions Board or becomes after such date but within four years after his discharge not less than the minimum degree of disablement, be granted a disability pension at the rate specified in that behalf in those provisions of the Third Schedule to this Act which are applicable to the case of such persons. | |
(2) If a person to whom a pension is granted under this section was married before the 1st day of October, 1924, and is at the commencement of such pension a married man for the purposes of this Act then he shall for so long after such commencement as he continues to be a married man for the purposes of this Act be entitled to be paid and receive a married pension at the rate specified in that behalf in those provisions of the Third Schedule to this Act which are applicable to the case of such person. | ||
(3) Every pension granted under this section shall commence from such date as the Minister, having regard to all the circumstances of the case, shall determine, but such date shall not be earlier than— | ||
(a) in the case of a person who is discharged from the forces before the passing of this Act, the 16th day of December, 1926, nor | ||
(b) in the case of a person who is discharged from the forces on the day of or after the passing of this Act, the day after the date of such discharge, nor | ||
(c) in any case, the date on which the disablement first amounts to the minimum degree of disablement. |