{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/war-pensions-act-1921/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/war-pensions-act-1921/section-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5/11-12/49",
  "legislation_title": "War Pensions Act 1921",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/war-pensions-act-1921",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Amendment of s. 8 of 9 & 10 Geo. 5. c. 53.",
  "text": "(1) No appeal shall lie under section eight of the Act of 1919 as originally enacted, or as amended by section eight of the War Pensions Act, 1920 (in this Act referred to as “the Act of 1920”), to a Pensions Appeal Tribunal against the rejection of a claim unless notice of intention to appeal is given in such manner as may be prescribed by regulations made under the Schedule to the Act of 1919, and within six months after the date of the notification to the claimant of the rejection of the claim . . . .\n(2) A Pensions Appeal Tribunal in considering such an appeal as aforesaid shall have regard to the terms of the Warrant, Order in Council, or Order in pursuance of which the claim purports to be made, and shall not allow the appeal unless they are satisfied that the claim is in all respects well founded having regard to the said terms.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in s. 6(1) substituted (9.4.2001) by 2000 c. 19, s. 58(5) (with ss. 58(6), 83(6)); S.I. 2000/2994, art. 2(4)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1986 (c. 12), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. III"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1920 c. 23."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "“the Act of 1919” means War Pensions (Administrative Provisions) Act 1919 (c. 53)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/11-12/49/section/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:51:11.819801+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}