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Army Pensions Act 1914

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 4 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1914 c. 83


Army Pensions Act, 1914.

(4 & 5 Geo. 5.) CHAPTER 83.

An Act to enable the Army Council to fix the mode of payment of Military Pensions.

[18th September 1914]

Be it enacted by the King'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:

S-1 Mode of payment of pensions.

1 Mode of payment of pensions.

1. Notwithstanding anything in any Act, Order, or Royal Warrant to the contrary, pensions payable in respect of military service shall be issued in advance at such intervals (not exceeding three months) as the Army Council may from time to time by order direct:

Provided that this section shall not apply in the case of pensions granted before the passing of this Act, and that an Order of the Army council under this section may in any case provide that, where a soldier who has enlisted before the passing of this Act dies whilst in receipt of a pension, a sum not exceeding the amount of his pension for three months may be paid to his personal representatives.

S-2 Short title.

2 Short title.

2. This Act may be cited as theArmy Pensions Act, 1914.

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