14/02/1924: ARMY PENSIONS REGULATIONS (No. 1) 1924. (Regulations made under Section 6 of Army Pensions Act, 1923).

ARMY PENSIONS ACT, 1923 .

REGULATIONS UNDER SECTION 6.

WHEREAS it is provided by Section 6 of the Army Pensions Act, 1923 , that the Minister for Defence may from time to time make Regulations for the medical examination and periodical re-examination of officers and soldiers who are, or claim to be, entitled to wound pensions under the Act ;

Now I, RISTEARD UA MAOLCHATHA, Minister for Defence, do hereby make the regulations following, that is to say :—

ARMY PENSIONS ACT, 1923 .

REGULATIONS UNDER SECTION 6 IN RESPECT OF WOUND PENSIONS.

1. A person to whom these Regulations apply shall at the request of the Minister for Defence be examined by a Medical Board, which shall consist of three Doctors selected by the Director of Medical Services from such panel of Doctors as may be nominated from time to time by the Minister for Defence, with the consent of the Minister for Finance. One member of such Board to be selected by the Director of Medical Services shall be the Chairman of the Board.

2. The persons to whom these Regulations apply are :—

i. Such officers and soldiers as :

(a) Are certified by the Minister for Defence to have been wounded or injured in the course of their duty while on active service without their own serious negligence or misconduct; and

(b) are certified by the Minister for Defence to have been discharged from the Forces as medically unfit for further service ; and

(c) Are or claim to be suffering from disablement due to a wound received on or after the 1st day of April, 1922:

ii. Persons who :

(a) Are certified by the Minister for Defence to have been wounded or injured before the 1st April, 1922, without their own serious negligence or misconduct in the course of their duty as members of the Irish Volunteers or the Irish Citizen Army, 1916; and

(b) Are or claim to be suffering from disablement due to such wound or injury.

3. The Medical Board shall, before examination of a person, consider any statement of claim made by him, and, after examination, shall report on the case to the Minister for Defence on such form as may be from time to time prescribed by him. The Chairman of the Board shall, if necessary, give such further information, either orally or in writing, as may be required by the Minister for Defence.

4. The Medical Board shall, in each case referred to them, report whether the disablement has reached its final condition, and, if not, how long the degree of disablement found is likely to last. A person in whose case the disablement has not reached its final condition shall be re-examined after such intervals as may be fixed by the Minister for Defence on the advice of the Medical Board, and no final grant of a wound pension shall be made to such person within two years after the first grant of a wound pension to him unless the disablement has in that period reached its final condition.

5. The Board shall sit at such places and at such times as may be determined from time to time by the Minister for Defence.

Signed this 14th day of February, 1924,

at the Ministry of Defence.

RISTEARD UA MAOLCHATHA,

Minister for Defence.