Greenwich Hospital Act 1898
Greenwich Hospital Act, 1898
(61 & 62 Vict.) CHAPTER 24.
An Act to amend the Greenwich Hospital Acts, 1865 to 1892.
[25th July 1898]
Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1 Gifts of property for the benefit of navy or marines.
(1)1.—(1.) Section forty-three of the Greenwich Hospital Act, 1865 , shall extend to authorise the gift of property to the Admiralty to be held for the benefit of officers, non-commissioned officers, or men of the royal navy or marines, or of their widows, children, or dependents, and property so given shall be held in accordance with the directions of that section, and be applied as the Admiralty, having regard to the terms of the gift, may direct.
(2) (2.) The property devised in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six by Jane Douglas Rotely ‘to the Lords of the English Admiralty or other the proper authorities for the purpose to be applied for the benefit of the British Government School in England constituted for the education of sons of officers of the British Navy and Marines’ shall be held as if given in pursuance of the powers conferred by the foregoing provisions of this section, and shall be applied for the education of sons of officers of the royal navy or marines as the Admiralty may direct, but subject and without prejudice to any claims affecting that property.
2 Repeal of 28 & 29 Vict. c. 89. s. 29.
2. Section twenty-nine of the Greenwich Hospital Act, 1865, is hereby repealed.
3 Invalids in hospitals, &c.
3. Non-commissioned officers or men may under section four of the Greenwich Hospital Act, 1869, be sent to any hospital or infirmary, and the word ‘naval’ in that section is hereby repealed.
4 Alteration of maximum of Greenwich Hospital pensions.
4. The maximum limit of special Greenwich Hospital pensions under section five of the Greenwich Hospital Act, 1869, shall be forty-five pounds twelve shillings and sixpence a year instead of thirty-six pounds ten shillings a year and twenty-seven pounds ten shillings a year in the respective cases referred to in that section.
5 Explanation of 46 &...
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