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Review of awards of gratuities under the Act of 1932.
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6.—(1) Where—
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(a) a person to whom an award of gratuity in respect of disablement due to a wound was made under the Act of 1932, and
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(b) in respect of whom the period of five years prescribed in section 18 (2) of the Act of 1932 has expired,
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such person may, notwithstanding anything contained in the Acts, make one final application to the Minister to have the amount of such award reviewed.
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(2) Where a person makes an application under this section, the Minister may request the Army Pensions Board to re-examine that person and re-assess his degree of disablement and, upon such re-assessment being made, if the degree of his disablement is found to be not less than twenty per cent. the Minister may, if he so thinks fit, award a pension of an amount appropriate to the degree of disablement so re-assessed.
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(3) Every pension granted by virtue of this section shall commence from such date (not being earlier than the date of the passing of this Act) as the Minister may determine.
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(4) A pension granted to any person as a result of a re-assessment under this section shall be deemed to be a final grant of pension under the Act of 1932.
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