Greenwich Hospital Act 1947
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1947 c. 5 |
Greenwich Hospital Act, 1947
(10 & 11 Geo. 6.) CHAPTER 5.
An Act to repeal certain restrictions on the amount of special Greenwich Hospital pensions and of expenditure out of Greenwich Hospital Funds for the education and maintenance of children, and to make further provision for the granting out of those Funds of widows' pensions, children's allowances and gratuities to dependants.
[18th February 1947]
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:—
1 Removal of restrictions on amount of special Greenwich Hospital pensions and of expenditure on education and maintenance of children.
(1) The following provisions of the Greenwich Hospital Acts, 1865 to 1942, that is to say—
(a ) so much of section five of the Greenwich Hospital Act, 1869 , as limits the amount of the special Greenwich Hospital pensions which may be appointed to non-commissioned officers and men admitted to the benefits of Greenwich Hospital in lieu of maintenance;
(b ) so much of section four of the Greenwich Hospital Act, 1872 , as limits the number of daughters of warrant officers, non-commissioned officers and men of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines who at any one time may be educated and maintained under that section; and
(c ) so much of section five of the said Act of 1872 as limits the amount that may be expended under the said section five on the education and maintenance of any son or daughter of a deceased or distressed commissioned officer of the Royal Navy or Royal Marines,
shall cease to have effect.
(2) In accordance with sub-paragraph (a ) of the foregoing subsection, section six of the Pensions (Increase) Act, 1920 and paragraph (b ) of subsection (1) of section seven of the Pensions (Increase) Act, 1944 (which provide for disregarding certain increases of pensions in determining the amount of, or eligibility for, such special Greenwich Hospital pensions as aforesaid) are hereby repealed.
2 Extension of power to grant pensions, etc., under 46 & 47 Vict. c. 32, s. 2.
(1) The power of the Admiralty, under section two of the Greenwich Hospital Act, 1883, to grant pensions to widows, allowances to children, and...
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