Blind Persons Act 1938
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Blind Persons Act, 1938
(1 & 2 Geo. 6.) CHAPTER 11.
An Act to lower from fifty years to forty years, the age which blind persons must have attained in order to be entitled to old age pensions under the Old Age Pensions, Act, 1936; and to amend the law with respect to the provision of assistance in relation to such persons by local authorities.
[30th March 1938]
B E 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:—
1 Lowering of age at which non-contributory old age pensions may be paid to blind persons.
1. The age which a blind person must have attained in order to be entitled to receive an old age pension under the Old Age Pensions Act, 1936, shall be forty years instead of fifty years, and accordingly section two of that Act shall have effect as if, in paragraph (a ) of subsection (1) of that section, for the word ‘fifty’ there were substituted the word ‘forty,’ and as if, in paragraph (b ) of that subsection, for the word ‘thirty’ there were substituted the word ‘twenty.’
2 Duty of local authorities to promote welfare of blind persons.
(1) For subsection (1) of section two of the Blind Persons Act, 1920 , (hereafter in this Act referred to as ‘the principal Act’) there shall be substituted the following subsections:—
(1) It shall be the duty of the council of every county or county borough to make arrangements for promoting the welfare of blind persons ordinarily resident in the area of the council, and the things which such a council may do in the performance of their said duty shall include the provision and maintenance, or the making of contributions towards the provision and maintenance, of workshops, hostels, homes or other places (whether in or outside the area of the council) for the reception of blind persons, and any other things the doing of which appears to the council to be desirable for the purpose of the performance of that duty.
In determining, in the case of any blind person, whether or not, or to what extent, to provide financial assistance under the preceding provisions of this subsection, the council shall take into account not only the needs of the blind person, but also the needs of any members of the household of which the blind...
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