# Relief of Poor and Maimed Officers and Soldiers Act 1662, Section II: Description of Persons entitled to the Benefit of this Act.


Certificate of such Description.; Two Justices of Peace, on Examination of Certificate, may assign Relief,; Proviso where Officer who is to make such Certificate is dead.
And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Officer Souldier or Mariner maimed indigent aged or disabled in body for worke in the Service of his said late Majesty or his Majesty that now is during under the late Warrs or which are so impoverished by theire sufferings under any of the late usurped Powers as that they are destitute of any competent Subsistence or Livelihood and have continued faithful to his Trust and not deserted the same by taking up Armes against his said late Majesty or his Majesty that now is or otherwise shall forthwith repair to the place where he was last setled before hee tooke up Armes with a Certificate of his Service and hurts received under the hand of his Captaine or other commissionated Officer And shall alsoe repaire unto the two next Justices of the Peace in the County where such his setling was And the said two Justices upon the examination of the truth of such Certificate (which the said twoe Justices are hereby impowered to take upon Oath of the party and of such Witnesses as he shall produce) shall by warrant unto the Treasurer assign him releife untill the next Quarter Sessions to bee holden for that County or Liberty at which time a yearely Pension shall be by the said Justices or the major part of them granted in Manner and Forme and with Power of Revocation or Alteration as by the said Statute is further declared and directed And in case that the Captaine or Officer appointed to make such Certificate be dead the said two Justices shall have power upon request to them made in behalfe of the Party maimed or aged indigent or disabled as aforesaid by persons of credit to give such releife as in case of examination aforesaid

---
Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha2/14/9/section/II (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/relief-of-poor-and-maimed-officers-and-soldiers-act-1662/section-II
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.