{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/naval-military-and-air-forces-etc-disablement-and-death-service-pensions-amendment-order-1997/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/naval-military-and-air-forces-etc-disablement-and-death-service-pensions-amendment-order-1997/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/286",
  "legislation_title": "The Naval, Military and Air Forces Etc. (Disablement and Death) Service Pensions Amendment Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/naval-military-and-air-forces-etc-disablement-and-death-service-pensions-amendment-order-1997",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendments of articles 18, 21 and 26A",
  "text": "(1) In the amendments to the principal Order made in paragraphs (2) to (4) below, a claim is a new claim where —\n(a) the date of the claim occurs on or after 7th April 1997; and\n(b) on the day which immediately precedes the date of the claim the member or, where the member has died, the person by or in respect of whom the claim is made does not have an award of the allowance or, as the case may be, the supplement in question.\n(2) In article 18 (unemployability allowances) —\n(a) after paragraph (1) there shall be inserted the following paragraph —\n“(1A) Paragraph (1) shall not apply in the case of a member who submits a new claim for an allowance under this article —\n(a) on or after the date he attains the age of 65; or\n(b) where the degree of disablement is assessed at less than 60 per cent.”;\n(b) in paragraph (2) for the amount “£2,366” there shall be substituted the amount “£2,418”.\n(3) In article 21 (allowance for lowered standard of occupation) —\n(a) in paragraph (1) at the beginning there shall be inserted the words —\n“Except in the case of a member to whom paragraph (1B) applies,”; and\n(b) after paragraph (1A) there shall be inserted the following paragraph —\n“(1B) This paragraph applies in the case of a member who submits a new claim for an allowance under this article —\n(a) on or after the date he attained the age of 65; or\n(b) where the degree of disablement is assessed at less than 40 per cent.”.\n(4) In article 26A (mobility supplement), after paragraph (1) there shall be inserted the following paragraph —\n“(1A) This article shall not apply in the case of a member who submits a new claim where the degree of disablement is assessed at less than 40 per cent.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The sum £2,366 was substituted by S.I. 1996/732."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Paragraph (1A) was inserted by S.I. 1985/1201."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Article 26A was inserted by S.I. 1983/1116; such amendments as have been made to article 26A are not relevant to this Order."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/286/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:25:59.824632+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}