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PART VI.
Pensions in respect of disablements due to wounds or disease aggravated by military service.
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Assessment of degree of disablement.
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27.—(1) The following provisions shall for the purposes of this Part of this Act have effect in relation to a person suffering from a disablement due to a wound, that is to say:—
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(a) in case such disablement is one of the disablements mentioned in the first column of the Fourth Schedule to the Act of 1927, the degree of such person's disablement shall be the degree of disablement set out in the second column of that Schedule opposite to the disablement from which such person is so suffering,
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(b) in any other case the degree of such person's disablement shall be the degree assessed in that behalf by the Army Pensions Board.
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(2) The following provisions shall for the purposes of this Part of this Act have effect in relation to a person suffering from a disablement due to a disease, that is to say:—
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(a) the degree of such person's disablement shall be the degree assessed in that behalf by the Army Pensions Board, and
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(b) the assessment of such person's disablement shall be made on a percentage basis, and total disablement shall be assessed at one hundred per cent. and every disablement less than total disablement shall be assessed as a percentage of total disablement.
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