Injuries in War (Compensation) Act 1915
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1915 c. 24 |
Injuries in War (Compensation) Act, 1915.
(5 & 6 Geo. 5.) CHAPTER 24.
An Act to provide for the grant of pensions and other allowances to certain persons in respect of disablement due to causes arising out of the operations of the present war, whilst they are employed afloat in connexion with the telegraph and postal services, and to their dependants, and for purposes connected therewith.
[16th March 1915]
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 Provision of pensions and other allowances to persons disabled in connexion with the laying and repairing of submarine cables, &c. during the present war.
(1) His Majesty may by Order in Council frame a scheme as to the pension and grants, and other allowances in the nature thereof, to be paid to persons in respect of disablement suffered by them and attributable to causes arising out of the operations of the present war—
(a ) whilst they are employed afloat by or under the Postmaster-General, or in pursuance of any agreement made by the Postmaster-General with other persons, in connexion with the laying, installing, repairing, and operating of submarine cables and telegraphic (including wireless) apparatus; or
(b ) whilst they are being carried afloat to or from any place where they are about to be or have been employed in connexion with such purposes; or
(c ) whilst they are employed afloat by the Postmaster-General on duties in connexion with the conveyance or sorting of letters and parcels;
and in the case of their death to their widows and other dependants.
(2) The Order shall specify the persons to whom the Order applies and the conditions under which it becomes applicable, and may include persons not in the direct employment of the Postmaster-General.
(3) A person to whom any such Order in Council applies shall not, nor in the case of his death shall his widow or other dependants or his personal representatives, in respect of any disablement suffered by him to which the Order in Council applies, be entitled to any compensation under the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1906 , or to any compensation or damages at common, law or under the Employers'...
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