{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-navy-army-air-force-and-mercantile-marine-act-1939/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-navy-army-air-force-and-mercantile-marine-act-1939/section-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/2-3/83",
  "legislation_title": "Pensions (Navy, Army, Air Force and Mercantile Marine) Act 1939",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-navy-army-air-force-and-mercantile-marine-act-1939",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Compensation for war damage to effects.",
  "text": "(1) The Board of Trade may with the consent of the Treasury make a scheme for compensating—\n(a) persons for war damage to their effects sustained by reason of their service as mariners in British ships, that is to say, sustained in any of the circumstances mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (g) of subsection (2) of section three of this Act. and\n(b) a person to whom section four of this Act applies, for war damage to his effects sustained in such of the circumstances mentioned in subsection (3) of that section as are applicable in his case; and\n(c) persons to whom section five of this Act applies, for war damage to their effects sustained in such circumstances as may be specified in the scheme.\n(2) A scheme made by virtue of this section may fix the maximum amount that shall be payable thereunder in different circumstances specified in the scheme.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) In this section the expression “effects”, in relation to any person, means any property carried on his person or in the ship in which he is serving or in the ship or other conveyance in which he is travelling, or otherwise accompanying him, at the time when the war damage in question occurs.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 6(1)(a) substituted by Pensions (Mercantile Marine) Act 1942 (c. 26), s. 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 6(3) repealed (1.1.1996) by 1995 c. 21, ss. 314(1), 316(2), Sch. 12 (with s. 312(1), Sch. 14 para. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Functions of Board of Trade under s. 6 now exercisable by Secretary of State concurrently with Board of Trade: S.R. & O. 1939/1470 (Rev. XV, p. 214: 1939 II, p. 3051), S.R. & O. 1941/654 (Rev. XV, p. 228: 1941 I, p. 1221), S.R. & O. 1946/375 (Rev. XV, p. 229: 1946 I, p. 1009), S.I. 1953/1204 (1953 I, p. 1225), 1959/1768 (1959 I, p. 1793), 1965/145 and 1970/1537"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 6(1)(a) amended by Pensions (Mercantile Marine) Act 1942 (c. 26), s. 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 6 applied by Pensions (Mercantile Marine) Act 1942 (c. 26), ss. 1(1), 2(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/2-3/83/section/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:32:04.846048+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."
}