Part II GENERAL
United Kingdom
1 1976 c. 3. 2 1978 c. 28. 3 1917 c. 51 see Army Act (1881 c. 58) as modified by 1917 c. 51, s.12(1)). 4 1989 c. 41. 5 1984 c. 56. 6 1951 c. 23. 7 1992 c. 14. 8 1973 c. 50. 9 1990 c. 35. 10 1881 c. 58. 11 See War Pensions Act 1920 (c. 23), sections 1 and 2, and S.R. & O 1921/1276. | ||
| Item | Expression | Meaning |
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| 18. | “adopted” | adopted within the meaning of Part IV of the Adoption Act 19761 or, in Scotland F1section 39 of the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007 and “adoption” shall be construed accordingly; |
| 19. | “adult dependant” | for the purposes of article 12—
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| 20. | “Airman” | (1) in relation to service during the 1914 World War, a person defined as airman in the Air Force Act 19173 who was enlisted or entered into service in any portion of the Royal Air Force, Air Force Reserve or Auxiliary Air Force ordinarily maintained by enlistment in the United Kingdom— (a) including any such person who was enlisted or entered into service in any troops raised within or without the United Kingdom whose terms of service included or, under due authority, were made to include the pension provisions for the time being for British Air Forces, if such provisions were a charge on British Revenues; but (b) not including any airman who was merely attested and passed to the Reserve of any other person unless or until he actually served as airman in circumstances to which pension rights would normally, or under his conditions or service, have attached, had he been in the Royal Navy or the Regular Army; (2) in relation to service after 30th September 1921, a member of the air forces who is not an officer; |
| 21. | “apprentice” | a person undergoing full-time training for any trade, business, profession, office, employment or vocation, and receiving not more than nominal wages; |
| 22. | “authorised agent” | a person authorised by the Secretary of State for the purpose of receiving claims under this Order, including, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, a person exercising consular functions on behalf of Her Majesty's Government in right of the United Kingdom in the territory or place whether the person making the claim is resident at the time when it is made; |
| 23. | “child” | in relation to a member of the armed forces, a child with respect to whom the member—
and in each case the member—
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| 24. | “child's age limit” | in relation to a child or juvenile dependant of a member of the armed forces, the age of 16 years; |
| 25. F3. . . | ||
| 26. | “dependant living as a F4spouse or civil partner” | in relation to a member of the armed forces whose disablement is due to service before the commencement of the 1914 World War or after 30th September 1921, a person F5... who has not F6married or formed a civil partnership with, but is wholly or substantially maintained by, the member on a permanent basis throughout the period beginning 6 months prior to the commencement of his service and continuing where the member is disabled, up to the date of any award under this Order in respect of his disablement, and where the award is reviewed, up to the date of review, or where the member is dead, up to the date of his death; (and the expression “dependant who lived as a F7spouse or civil partner” shall be construed accordingly); |
| F826A. | “diffuse mesothelioma lump sum” | the meaning given in paragraph 1 of Schedule 1A |
| 27. | “disablement” | physical or mental injury or damage or loss of physical or mental capacity (and “disabled” shall be construed accordingly); |
| 28. | “earnings” | any remuneration or profit derived from employment; |
| 29. | “eligible dependant” | in relation to a course of treatment as defined in item 61, a person who is an eligible member of the family or who would be an eligible member of the family if for the date specified in items 25 or 26 of this Schedule as the terminating date of the period therein mentioned, there were substituted the date of commencement of that course of treatment; |
| 30. | “eligible member of the family” | spouse, civil partner, dependant living as a spouse F9or civil partner or child of a member of the armed forces; |
| 31. | “incapable of self-support” | in relation to any person, incapable of supporting himself solely by reason of—
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| 32. | “injury” | includes wound or disease but excludes any injury due to—
except that paragraph (a) in so far as it relates to the use of tobacco, and paragraph (b) above shall not apply where the person suffers from a mental condition which is attributable to service if—
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| 33. | “juvenile dependant” | a brother, sister, half-brother, half-sister, stepbrother, stepsister or grandchild, who has not attained the child's age limit; |
| 34. | “member of the air forces” | (1) in relation to service during the 1914 World War, a person defined as officer in paragraph (1)(b) of the 3rd column of item 41 of this Schedule, in so far as that paragraph relates to an officer serving in or with the Royal Air Force, or a person defined as airman in paragraph (1) of the 3rd column of item 20 above; (2) in relation to service after 30th September 1921, an officer holding a commission in or an airman, of the Royal Air Force, excluding— (a) a member of a local force raised abroad for service with the Royal Air Force; (b) a person excluded by the terms of his service from the benefits of this Order, or whose conditions of service include other provisions of a like nature; (c) a member of a category or class specifically excluded from the benefits of this Order; (d) a member of the Polish Resettlement Corps (Royal Air Force); |
| 35. | “member of the armed forces” | a member of the naval forces, the military forces or, as the case may be, of the air forces and any provision of this Order relating to a member of the armed forces shall, except where inappropriate, be construed as relating also to a woman member of the armed forces and as relating to a person whose service as a member or woman member has ended, and the expression “member” shall be construed accordingly; |
| 36. | “member of the military forces” | (1) in relation to service before or during the 1914 World War, a person defined as officer in paragraph (1)(b) of the 3rd column of item 41 of this Schedule, in so far as that paragraph relates to officers, other than air force officers, or a person defined as soldier in paragraph (1) of the 3rd column of item 55 below; (2) in relation to service after 30th September 1921, an officer holding a commission in, or a soldier of, the army whose unit is based in the United Kingdom or the Isle of Man, excluding— (a) a member of the Army Audit Staff holding a commission in connection with the performance of his duties as such; (b) a person to whom article 499 or article 1127 of the Royal Warrant of 29th February 1940 is applicable; (c) a person excluded by the terms of his service from the benefits of this Order, or whose conditions of service include other provisions of a like nature; (d) a member of a category or class specifically excluded from the benefits of this Order; (e) a member of the Polish Resettlement Corps; |
| 37. | “member of the naval forces” | (1) in relation to service before or during the 1914 World War, a person defined as officer in paragraph (1)(a) of the 3rd column of item 41 of this Schedule or as rating in paragraph (1) of the 3rd column of item 51 below; (2) in relation to service after 30th September 1921 an officer or rating of the Royal Navy or the Royal Marines, within the meaning of the principal Naval Regulations, excluding— (a) an officer or rating serving under conditions other than those prescribed by the principal Naval Regulations; (b) a person entered abroad on a non-continuous service engagement for local service only; (c) a non-European Native rating (whether a British subject or not); (d) a person excluded by the terms of his service from the benefits of this Order, or whose conditions of service include other provisions of a like nature; (e) a person serving in one of Her Majesty's ships or in a Fleet Auxiliary or in any other vessel in the service of the Admiralty under an agreement known as Agreement T.124 or a variant of that Agreement or under any other mercantile or special agreement; (f) a member of a category or class specifically excluded from the benefits of this Order; |
| 38. | “member of the Reserve or Auxiliary Forces” | a member of the armed forces after 30th September 1921, but otherwise than during any period during which he is embodied or mobilised or, pursuant to the provisions of the Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Training) Act 19516is called up for flying instructor duties, who is—
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| 39. | “noise-induced sensorineural hearing loss” | damage to the cochlea hair cells of the inner ear which is caused by the exposure of the cochlea to noise, and a condition or a symptom is to be treated as related to such hearing loss if it is another condition, or a symptom, which is the consequence of damage to the cochlea hair cells of the inner ear which is caused by the exposure of the cochlea to noise; |
| 40. | “nurse” | a person described in paragraph (1) of the 3rd column of item 62 of this Schedule; |
| 41. | “officer” | (1) in relation to service before or during the 1914 World War— (a) a commissioned or subordinate officer (including a commissioned officer from a warrant rank and a warrant officer, other than a warrant officer of the Royal Marines) on the permanent, temporary or reserve lists of the Royal Navy, Royal Marines or Reserves or, as the case may be, the Royal Naval Reserve, who served and was in receipt of naval pay as such during some period before or during the said war; or (b) a commissioned officer whether he held a permanent, short service, temporary or local commission in the Regular or Reserve Forces or in the Territorial Force or in the Royal Air Force, who served and was in receipt of military or, as the case may be, air force pay as such during some period of the said war, but excluding any officer of the Indian Army or of the Dominion, Colonial or Protectorate Forces, then existing, whether raised for general or local service, unless the terms of his service were made to include the pension rights of the Regular Army or, as the case may be, of the Regular Army or Air Force; (2) in relation to service after 30th September 1921, a member of the armed forces who is a commissioned officer therein, including, as may be appropriate, a woman member with officer status, a subordinate officer or warrant officer (other than a sergeant-major) of the Royal Marines or a woman member of the naval forces of warrant officer status; |
| 42. | “officer on the Active List” | an officer who is on full pay, half pay or otherwise before his retirement but not an officer who has retired and is subsequently re-called to service or is re-employed; |
| 43. | “other dependant” | grandparent, step-parent, brother, sister, half-brother, half-sister, stepbrother, stepsister or grandchild; |
| 44. | “parent” | in relation to a deceased member of the armed forces—
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| 45. | “Pay Warrant” | The Royal Warrant of 22nd August 1959 (and any reference to a provision of that Warrant shall, where the context so requires, be construed as a reference to any provision of an earlier Warrant replaced, with or without amendment, by the first mentioned provision); |
| 46. | “pension” | in relation to a rating, soldier or airman, a disablement pension awarded under article 6 or under article 1 of a 1919 to 1920 other rank instrument and in relation to a nurse, a disablement pension or an addition to service retired pay awarded under article 23 of a 1920 to 1921 (officers) instrument or an addition to service pension awarded under column (6) in Schedule 3 to the 1917 (Officers) Order and, where appropriate, any pension referred to in article 4(a)(ii) or (iii); |
| 47. | “Pension Warrant” | the Royal Warrant of 23rd December 1960 (and any reference to a provision of that Warrant shall, where the context so requires, be construed as a reference to any provision of an earlier Warrant replaced, with or without amendment, by the first mentioned provision); |
| 48. | “principal Air Force Regulations” | the Queen's Regulations and Air Council Instructions for the Royal Air Force as amended from time to time, the Regulations governing the various Auxiliary and Reserve Forces and the Nursing Service, as so amended, and any other regulations, instructions and provisions issued or made from time to time in relation to the air forces; |
| 49. | “principal Naval Regulations” | the Queen's Regulations and Admiralty Instructions for the government of Her Majesty's Naval Service, as amended from time to time, the Regulations governing the various Reserve Forces as so amended, the provisions summarised in the Appendix to the Navy List as so amended; and any other regulations, instructions or provisions issued or made from time to time in relation to Her Majesty's Naval Service; |
| 50. | “public funds” | (a) moneys provided by Parliament or appropriated by a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly; (b) moneys, the payment whereof is a charge on the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom or of Northern Ireland; (c) moneys provided by any general or local rate or by a fund established under or by virtue of any public, general or local Act; (d) moneys provided under the Local Government Finance Act 19927 or (e) moneys payable under any enactment, ordinance, regulation or other instrument forming part of the law of any place outside the United Kingdom; |
| 51. | “rating” | (1) in relation to service before or during the 1914 World War, a seaman or marine, including Chief Petty or Petty Officer and Warrant Officer (other than a Warrant Officer included in the definition of officer in item 41 of this Schedule) and a Non-Commissioned Officer of the Royal Marines (other than a Royal Marine Gunner) who served or was in receipt of naval or marine pay as such before or during some period of the said war— (a) including any man belonging to the Naval and Marine Reserves and also any seaman or marine specially enlisted or deemed to be specially enlisted for the purpose of the said war and transferred forthwith to the Reserve, if— (i) he was called into actual service; and (ii) served; and (iii) was in receipt of naval or marine pay as such during some period of the said war; but (b) not including any person who was a seaman or marine of the Royal Indian Marine, or of Dominion, Colonial or Protectorate Forces, whether raised for local or general service; (2) in relation to service after 30th September 1921, a member of the naval forces who is not an officer; |
| 52. | “remunerative work” | either—
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| 53. | “retired pay” | (1) in relation to officers, other than any warrant officer member of the naval forces— (a) retired pay awarded under article 6 of this Order; (b) retired pay or additional retired pay awarded under article 1 of a 1920 to 1921 (Officers) instrument other than the 1921 (Warrant Officers) Order; or (c) additional retired pay or half-pay under the 1917 (Officers) Order, Schedule 1, column 8 or the 1917 Warrant, Schedule 1, column 9; or (2) in relation to any warrant officer member of the naval forces— (a) retired pay awarded under article 10 of this Order; (b) retired pay or an addition to service retired pay, pension or gratuity awarded under article 1 of the 1921 (Warrant Officers) Order; or (c) an addition to service pension awarded under the 1917 (Warrant Officers) Order, Schedule 1, column (5) or (6); or, where appropriate, (3) any retired pay referred to in article 4(a)(i); |
| 54. | “service” | service as a member of the armed forces before 6th April 2005 and the word “served” shall be construed accordingly. |
| 55. | “soldier” | (1) in relation to service before or during the 1914 World War, a person defined as soldier in the Army Act 188110, who was enlisted or entered into service in any portion of the Regular Army, the Special Reserve, or the Territorial Force ordinarily maintained by enlistment in the United Kingdom— (a) including any such person who was enlisted or entered into service in any troops raised within or without the United Kingdom, whose terms of service included, or, under due authority were made to include, the pension provisions for the time being for British Troops, if such provisions were a charge on British revenues; but (b) not including soldiers who were merely attested and passed to the Reserve, or members of the Volunteer Force, or any other person unless or until he actually served as a soldier in circumstances in which the pension rights of the Regular Army would normally, or under his conditions of service have attached; (2) in relation to service after 30th September 1921, a member of the military forces who is not an officer; |
| 56. | “student” | a person who is receiving full-time instruction at a university, college, secondary school or technical school, or at any other establishment which, in the opinion of the Secretary of State, is a comparable educational establishment, and for the purposes of this Order a person may continue to be a student for such period (being a period not exceeding 13 weeks) after he ceases to receive full-time instruction as aforesaid and before he attains the age of 19 as the Secretary of State may in any particular case determine; |
| 57. | “surviving spouse” | the widow or, as the case may be, widower of a member of the armed forces; |
| 58. | “surviving civil partner” | surviving civil partner of a member of the armed forces; |
| F1058A. | “terminal illness” | a progressive disease where, in consequence of that disease, death can reasonably be expected F11within 12 months (and “ terminally ill ” shall be construed accordingly); |
| 59. | “termination” | in relation to service as a member of the armed forces—
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| 60. | “therapeutic earnings” | earnings from work for no more than 16 hours per week and which in the Secretary of State's view is not detrimental to the health of the member; |
| 61. | “treatment” | (1) any treatment as an in-patient of a hospital or similar institution; or (2) a course of medical, surgical or rehabilitative treatment of a remedial nature which in either case the Secretary of State is satisfied that a member of the armed forces should receive in consequence of any disablement in respect of which an award under this Order or any previous Order or Royal Warrant may be or has been made, but does not include any treatment which involves no or only occasional interruptions of the member's normal employment; |
| 62. | F12Veterans UK | an office designated by the Secretary of State for the purpose of receiving and determining applications for a pension, allowance or supplement; |
| 63. | “woman member of the armed forces” | (1) in relation to service before or during the 1914 World War, a member of— (a) the Royal Naval Nursing Service; (b) the Royal Naval Nursing Service Reserve; (c) Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service; (d) the Territorial Force Nursing Service; or (e) the Royal Air Force Nursing Service; (2) in relation to service after 30th September 1921, a woman who is— (a) commissioned or enlisted or enrolled as a member of the armed forces; (b) enrolled in the Women's Royal Naval Service or a reserve thereof; (c) a member of the Army Emergency Reserve or the Territorial Army or the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve; (d) a member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force or the reserve thereof (other than a member of the Polish Resettlement Section of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force); (e) a medical or dental practitioner employed with the Royal Army Medical Corps or the Royal Army Dental Corps or the Medical or Dental Branches of the Royal Navy or Royal Air Force with relative rank as an officer or with naval status for general service as the case may be; (f) enrolled in Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service or Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service or the Territorial Army Nursing Service or Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service or the respective Reserve or Auxiliary Sections thereof; (g) enrolled in the Auxiliary Territorial Service (other than a member of the Polish Resettlement Section (Auxiliary Territorial Service)); (h) a member of a Voluntary Aid Detachment enrolled for employment under the Defence Council; |
| 64. | “the 1914 World War” | the war which began on 4th August 1914 and ended on 31st August 1921 (and the expression “during the 1914 World War” shall be construed as a reference to any period beginning on or after 4th August 1914 and ending on or before 30th September 192111 |
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Words in Sch. 6 Pt. 2 Item 18 substituted (15.7.2011) by The Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007 (Consequential Modifications) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1740), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 45
- F2
Word in Sch. 6 Pt. 2 Item 19(b) omitted (9.4.2012) by virtue of The Naval, Military and Air Forces Etc. (Disablement and Death) Service Pensions (Amendment) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/359), arts. 1, 7
- F3
Sch. 6 Pt. 2 Item 25 omitted (2.12.2019) by virtue of The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1458), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 110(13)(a)
- F4
Words in Sch. 6 Pt. 2 Item 26 inserted (2.12.2019) by The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1458), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 110(13)(b)
- F5
Words in Sch. 6 Pt. 2 Item 26 omitted (2.12.2019) by virtue of The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1458), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 110(13)(c)(i)
- F6
Words in Sch. 6 Pt. 2 Item 26 inserted (E.W.) (13.3.2014) by The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/107), arts. 1(2), 2, Sch. 1 para. 43(b)
Words in Sch. 6 Pt. 2 Item 26 inserted (S.) (16.12.2014) by The Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014 and Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/3229), art. 1(2), Sch. 6 para. 30(b)
Words in Sch. 6 Pt. 2 Item 26 inserted (N.I.) (13.1.2020) by The Marriage (Same-sex Couples) and Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1514), regs. 1(2), 105 (with regs. 6-9)
- F7
Words in Sch. 6 Pt. 2 Item 26 inserted (2.12.2019) by The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1458), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 110(13)(c)(ii)
- F8
Sch. 6 Pt. 2 Item 26A inserted (11.4.2016) by The Naval, Military and Air Forces Etc. (Disablement and Death) Service Pensions (Amendment) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/374), arts. 1(1), 11
- F9
Word in Sch. 6 Pt. 2 Item 30 substituted (2.12.2019) by The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1458), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 110(13)(d)
- F10
Sch. 6 Pt. 3 Item 58A inserted (6.4.2009) by The Naval, Military and Air Forces Etc. (Disablement and Death) Service Pensions (Amendment) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/706), arts. 1(1), 17 (with art. 18)
- F11
Words in Sch. 6 Pt. 2 Item 58A substituted (10.4.2023) by The Naval, Military and Air Forces Etc. (Disablement and Death) Service Pensions (Amendment) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/163), arts. 1, 5
- F12
Words in Sch. 6 Pt. 2 substituted (9.4.2018) by The Naval, Military and Air Forces Etc. (Disablement and Death) Service Pensions (Amendment) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/176), arts. 1, 9