Army Pensions Act, 1968

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Amendment of section 13 of the Act of 1959.

8.—Section 13 of the Act of 1959 is hereby amended by the substitution for subsections (2) and (3) of the following subsections:

“(2) Where a person, to whom a wound pension or a disability pension is payable, and his wife have adopted a child, that child shall, for the purposes of the provisions of the Acts and this Act relating to further or married pensions, be considered as the child of the adopters born to them in lawful wedlock and not to be the child of any other person.

(3) Where a deceased person, to whom a wound pension or a disability pension was payable, and his wife adopted a child, the child shall, for the purposes of the provisions of the Acts and this Act relating to dependants' allowances, be considered as the child of the adopters born to them in lawful wedlock and not to be child of any other person.”