Statutory Instrument 1989 No. 156

The Naval, Military and Air Forces etc. (Disablement and Death) Service Pensions Amendment Order 1989

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1989 No. 156

PENSIONS

The Naval, Military and Air Forces etc. (Disablement and Death) Service Pensions Amendment Order 1989

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 7th day of February 1989

Present,

The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council

WHEREAS Her Majesty deems it expedient to amend the Naval, Military and Air Forces etc. (Disablement and Death) Service Pensions Order 1983^[1] and to do so by Order in Council in pursuance of section 12(1) of the Social Security (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1977^[2]:

NOW, THEREFORE, Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 12(1) and 24(3) of the said Act and of all other powers enabling Her in that behalf, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:

Citation, commencement and interpretation
    1.—(1)  This Order, which may be cited as the Naval, Military and Air Forces etc. (Disablement and Death) Service Pensions Amendment Order 1989, shall come into force for the purposes of this article and articles 3 and 5 on 1st April 1989 and for all other purposes on 10th April 1989.

    (2)  In this Order, the expression "the principal Order" means the Naval, Military and Air Forces etc. (Disablement and Death) Service Pensions Order 1983.

Amendment of article 18 of the principal Order
    2.    In article 18 of the principal Order (unemployability allowances) in paragraph (2) for the amount "£1,404" there shall be substituted the amount "£1,482".

Amendment of article 31 of the principal Order
    3.    At the end of paragraph (1) of article 31 of the principal Order (Rent allowance to widows, and unmarried dependants who lived as wives, who have children) there shall be added the words "and to any community charge payable by her.".

Amendment of Schedules to the principal Order
    4.—(1)  In Schedule 1 to the principal Order (rates of pension and other grants payable in respect of disablement)-
 (a) for Tables 1 and 3 of Part II there shall respectively be substituted the Tables set out in Schedules 1 and 2 hereto;
 (b) for Tables 1 and 2 of Part III there shall respectively be substituted the Tables set out in Schedules 3 and 4 hereto;
 (c) for Part IV there shall be substituted the Part set out in Schedule 5 hereto.

    (2)  In Schedule 2 to the principal Order (rates of pension and other grants payable in respect of death)-
 (a) for Table 1A of Part II there shall be substituted the Table set out in Schedule 6 hereto;
 (b) for the amount "£2,789" in the second column of Table 1B of Part II there shall be substituted the amount "£2,954";
 (c) for the amounts "£53.50" and "£12.35" in the second and third columns of Table 3 of Part II there shall respectively be substituted the amounts "£56.65" and "£13.08";
 (d) for Table 5 of Part II there shall be substituted the Table set out in Schedule 7 hereto;
 (e) for Part III there shall be substituted the Part set out in Schedule 8 hereto.

Amendment of Schedule 4 to the principal Order
    5.    In Part II of Schedule 4 to the principal Order, in column (3) of item 45 (meaning of the expression "public funds") after paragraph (c) there shall be inserted the following paragraph-
(cc) "moneys provided under the Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Act 1987^[3]; or" .

G. I. de Deney

Clerk of the Privy Council

[1] S.I. 1983/883, as amended by S.I. 1983/1116, 1521, 1984/1154, 1687, 1985/1201, 1986/592, 1987/165, 1988/248 and 2248. back

[2] 1977 c. 5. back

[3] 1987 c. 47. back

Explanatory Note