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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/naval-military-and-air-forces-etc-disablement-and-death-service-pensions-amendment-order-1993/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1993/598",
  "legislation_title": "The Naval, Military and Air Forces etc. (Disablement and Death) Service Pensions Amendment Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/naval-military-and-air-forces-etc-disablement-and-death-service-pensions-amendment-order-1993",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order further amends the Naval, Military and Air Forces etc. (Disablement and Death) Service Pensions Order 1983 (the principal Order) which makes provision for pensions and other awards in respect of disablement or death due to service in the naval, military and air forces during the 1914 World War and after 2nd September 1939.\nArticle 4 of this Order raises the maximum amount of annual earnings which may be received by a disabled person while he is deemed to be unemployable for the purposes of unemployability allowance under article 18 of the principal Order.\nArticles 5, 6 and 7 of this Order amend articles 23, 24 and 25 of the principal Order respectively to provide that a treatment allowance may be payable only where there has been a loss of earnings.\nArticle 8 of this Order amends article 26 of the principal Order to enable medical expenses to be defrayed where they arise wholly or mainly from the disablement due to service.\nArticles 10 and 14 of this Order amend article 31 of, and Part II of Schedule 4 to, the principal Order as a consequence of the abolition of community charge and the introduction of council tax on 1st April 1993.\nArticle 11 of this Order abolishes the restoration of pensions to certain classes of widows on the death of their second husbands from 12th April 1993 with transitional provisions and provides for the awarding of gratuities.\nArticle 12 of this Order makes provision to invalidate any assignment or charge on a pension.\nArticle 13 of this Order substitutes tables in the Schedule in the principal Order thereby abolishing rank additions and varying the rates of retired pay, pension, gratuities and allowance in respect of disablement or death due to service in the armed forces. As a consequence of the abolition of rank additions, articles 7, 10 and 29 of the principal Order have been amended (articles 2 and 9).\nArticle 15 of this Order abolishes education allowances, pensions to parents and other dependants and pensions to certain special classes of disabled servicemen.\nArticle 16 provides saving provisions.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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