Explanatory note

This Order extends the provisions relating to mobility supplement in article 26A of the Naval, Military and Air Forces etc. (Disablement and Death) Service Pensions Order 1983 (S.I. 1983/883) (“the principal Order”), inserted by the Naval, Military and Air Forces etc. (Disablement and Death) Service Pensions Amendment Order 1983 (S.I.1983/1116). It enables aperson who is receiving a pension under the principal Order because of disablement arising from being both blind and deaf, to qualify for mobility supplement where by reason of the combined effects of being blind and deaf he is unable without the assistance of another person to walk to an intended or required destination while out of doors.