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WAR PENSIONS (ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS) ACT 1918

WAR PENSIONS (ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS) ACT 1918 - LONG TITLE

An Act to make provision for the better administration of the
enactments relating to Naval, Military, and Air Force War Pensions,
Grants, and Allowances, and for certain other purposes connected with
such pensions, grants, and allowances.
[21st November 1918]
Ss.16 rep. by SLR 1927

WAR PENSIONS (ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS) ACT 1918 - SECT 7
Representation of Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance on
Royal Patriotic Fund Corporation.

7.(1) Paragraph 1 of the First Schedule to the Patriotic Fund
Reorganisation Act, 1903 (which relates to the constitution of the
Royal Patriotic Fund Corporation), shall have effect as though there
were added at the end thereof the following words:

<"(g)Two members appointed on the recommendation of the Minister of Pensions by His Majesty by warrant under the Sign Manual."

The two members to be appointed under the said paragraph 1 as
amended by this section shall hold office for a term of three
years but shall be eligible for re-appointment, and where any
vacancy occurs in the office of any member so appointed, any person
appointed to fill the vacancy shall hold office for three years.

(2) The two members to be so appointed as aforesaid shall be
members of the executive committee of the said Corporation, and
paragraph 6 of the said First Schedule shall have effect as though
"twenty-two members" were therein substituted for "twenty members."

WAR PENSIONS (ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS) ACT 1918 - SECT 8
Amendment as to constitution of special grants committee.

8.Subs.(1) amends s.2 of 1917 c.37

(2) The Minister may make regulations with respect to the following
matters:

(a)The term of office, not being less than three years, of members
of the special grants committee:

(b)The appointment of persons to fill casual or other vacancies on
the committee.

(3) If it is represented to the Minister by the special grants
committee that any member of the committee is habitually absent from
the meetings of the committee, the Minister may declare that that
person has vacated his office as a member of the committee.

(4) A person who has vacated office as a member of the special
grants committee shall be eligible for re-appointment.

(5) If any persons belonging to the staff of the Ministry are
assigned to the service of the special grants committee the person
so assigned shall as regards that service, but not otherwise, be
subject to the directions of the committee.

WAR PENSIONS (ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS) ACT 1918 - SECT 9
Duty of Minister to provide for care of neglected children of men
dead or on service.

9.(1) It shall be the duty of the Minister to make provision for
the care of any children (including illegitimate children), being the
children of officers or men in the naval, military, or air service
of His Majesty who have died from causes arising out of their
service during the present war or who are on active service, who
by reason of their mothers being dead or for any other reason are
suffering from neglect or want of proper care, and the Minister may
out of any funds at his disposal for the purpose make grants for
the purpose of making such provision as aforesaid.

(2) The Minister may, subject to such conditions as he thinks fit,
provide for the performance by the special grants committee ... of
his duty under this section.

(3) Any question which may arise with respect to the amount of any
grant to be made under this section shall, if the Minister so
directs, be referred to and determined by the special grants
committee.

Subs.(4) spent

(5) For the purposes of this section a child means any child to,
or in respect of, whom a pension, allowance, or separation allowance
is payable.

(6) The Minister ... shall in any case in which it is proposed in
pursuance of the provisions of this section to place any child in
any institution or under the care of any person endeavour to
ascertain the religious denomination to which the child belongs, and
no child shall be placed in an institution or under the care of a
person not belonging to the same religious denomination as the child
unless the persons having the management of the institution or the
person under whose care the child is to be placed, as the case
may be, give or gives such undertaking as seems to the Minister
... sufficient that the child shall be brought up in accordance
with its own religious persuasion.

Where such an undertaking as aforesaid given by the persons having
the management of any institution or by any person is not observed
the Minister ... shall as soon as may be remove the child from
the institution or from the care of that person.

Ss.1016 rep. by SLR 1927; SLR 1953

WAR PENSIONS (ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS) ACT 1918 - SECT 18
Short title and interpretation.

18.(1) This Act may be cited as the War Pensions (Administrative
Provisions) Act, 1918, and the Naval and Military War Pensions, &c.
Acts, 1915 to 1917, the Naval and Military War Pensions, &c.
(Transfer of Powers) Act, 1917, the Naval and Military War Pensions,
&c. (Committees) Act, 1917, and this Act may be cited together as
the War Pensions Acts, 1915 to 1918.

(2) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires

Definition rep. by SLR 1927

The expression "Minister" means the Minister of Pensions, and the
expression "Ministry" means Ministry of Pensions;

The expression "pension" does not include a service pension;

Definition rep. by SLR 1927

(3) This Act shall be construed as one with the principal Act and,
unless the context otherwise requires, any references in this Act to
the principal Act, or to any provision of the principal Act which
has been amended by any other enactment or is amended by this Act,
shall be construed as references to the principal Act or that
provision as amended by any other enactment or by this Act.

Subs.(4) rep. by SLR 1927

Schedule rep. by SLR 1927