Pensions Appeal Tribunals Act 1949
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1949 c. 12 |
| Year | 1949 |
Pensions Appeal Tribunals Act, 1949
(12, 13 & 14 Geo. 6) CHAPTER 12
An Act to amend the Pensions Appeal Tribunals Act, 1943.
[9th March 1949]
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 Extension of Act to claims arising otherwise than out of war service.
(1) For the words ‘war service’ wherever those words occur in section one of the Pensions Appeal Tribunals Act, 1943 , as in force at the date of the passing of this Act, there shall be substituted the words ‘any relevant service’, and for the definition in section twelve of that Act of the expression ‘war service’ there shall be substituted the following definition—
‘'relevant service' in relation to any claim made under any such Royal Warrant, Order in Council or Order of His Majesty as is referred to in section one of this Act means any service which, under that Royal Warrant, Order in Council or Order, is relevant for the purposes of that claim.’
(2) No appeal shall lie under the said section one from the rejection of a claim in connection with service before the third day of September, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, and references in that Act to the claims referred to in the said section one shall not be deemed to include references to any such claim.
2 Appeals arising out of ex gratia awards.
2. Where, before the passing of this Act, any claim in respect of the disablement of any person has been made under any such Royal Warrant, Order in Council or Order of His Majesty as is referred to in section one of the Pensions Appeal Tribunals Act, 1943, or has been made under any such scheme as is referred to in section two or section three of that Act and that claim was rejected and that rejection was confirmed on appeal under that Act and, whether before or after the passing of this Act, an ex gratia award is made by the Minister with the consent of the Treasury in respect of that disablement, section five of that Act (which relates to the assessment of the extent of disablement) and, where the claim was made under any such Royal Warrant, Order in Council or Order as aforesaid, the said section one, so far as it...
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