Article 21 Prevention of double payments

Where the Minister is satisfied that a payment (not being a payment in respect of the expenses incurred in connection with a funeral) has been or will be made under an enactment or Order in Council to which this Article applies in respect of an injury which results in disablement or death, no award of a pension, allowance or gratuity in respect of that disablement or death shall be made under this Scheme or under the Naval Order as applied by this Scheme, and any such award which has been made shall be cancelled:

Provided that, where the Minister is satisfied that, in respect of any period, the aggregate annual value of the payments which are being or will be made under the first of the said enactments falls short of the aggregate annual value of the payments which, but for the foregoing provisions of this Article, would have been made in respect of that period under this Scheme or under the Naval Order as applied by this Scheme, the Minister may make such awards under this Scheme or under the Naval Order as applied by this Scheme as he may consider appropriate in order to make good the deficiency.

The enactments and Orders in Council to which this Article applies are—