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INJURIES IN WAR (COMPENSATION) ACT 1914

INJURIES IN WAR (COMPENSATION) ACT 1914 - LONG TITLE

An Act to provide for the grant of pensions and other allowances
to certain persons if injured whilst employed in connexion with
warlike operations, and to their dependants, and for purposes
connected therewith.{1}
[10th August 1914]
Provision of pensions and other allowances to civilians injured in
connexion with warlike operations, &c.

INJURIES IN WAR (COMPENSATION) ACT 1914 - SECT 1

1.(1) His Majesty may by Order in Council frame a scheme as to
the pension and grants, and other allowances in the nature thereof,
to be paid to persons [(not being officers or men of any of His
Majesty's forces)], in respect of injuries suffered by them whilst
employed afloat by or under the [Secretary of State for Defence] in
connexion with warlike operations in which His Majesty is engaged,
and in the case of their death to their widows and other
dependants.

(2) The Order shall specify the persons to whom the Order applies
and the conditions under which it becomes applicable, and may
include persons not in the direct employment of the [Secretary of
State for Defence], and persons employed on commissioned ships,
notwithstanding that by reason of such employment they are subject
to the Naval Discipline Act.

(3) A person to whom any such Order in Council applies shall not,
nor in the case of his death shall his widow or other dependants
or his personal representatives, in respect of any injury suffered
by him whilst the Order in Council so applies to him, be entitled
to any pensions or other benefits under any other Order in Council
or any warrant or regulations relating to officers and men in the
[naval, military or air force] service of the Crown, or to any
compensation under the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1906, or to any
compensation or damages at common law or under the Employers'
Liability Act, 1880, or any other statute, or to any gratuity or
any superannuation or other allowance under the Superannuation Acts,
1834 to 1909, or to any pension or allowance under the Greenwich
Hospital Acts, 1865 to 1898, except so far as the Order in Council
otherwise provides.

(4) All pensions, grants, and other allowances under this Act shall
be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament.

(5) An Order in Council under this Act may provide that the Order
shall have effect as from the third day of August nineteen hundred
and fourteen, and any such Order in Council may be revoked or
varied by a subsequent Order.

INJURIES IN WAR (COMPENSATION) ACT 1914 - SECT 2
Short title.

2. This Act may be cited as the Injuries in War (Compensation)
Act, 1914.