Pensions (Navy, Army, Air Force and Mercantile Marine) Act 1939

applying the provisions of any Naval War Pensions Order to persons in cases where their death or disablement is directly attributable to their having sustained war injuries, or suffered detention, by reason of their service as mariners in British ships;

the payment of allowances to or for the benefit of persons who have suffered detention as aforesaid or to or for the benefit of their dependants.

while he was in the service of a British ship as a mariner;

in the case of a person normally employed as a mariner, while he was in the service of a seagoing British ship in the British Islands in which he was employed as master or a member of the crew thereof, notwithstanding that he was not employed in seagoing service in the ship;

while he was at a place outside the British Islands on leave from a British ship in which he was employed as a mariner and which was at a port outside the British Islands;

while he was at a place outside the British Islands in accordance with arrangements made or approved by or on behalf of the Minister of War Transport for having persons available for employment as mariners;

while he was at any place, except on land in the British Islands, in the course of proceeding to employment in a British ship as a mariner, or to a place to which he was going in accordance with such arrangements as aforesaid;

without prejudice to the last preceding paragraph, while he was at any place, except as aforesaid, in the course of returning to any part of the British Islands, to the country to which he belonged, or to any other country approved by or on behalf of the Minister of War Transport, from employment in a British ship as a mariner, or from a place at which he had been in accordance with such arrangements as aforesaid, and before he first arrived on land in that part of the British Islands or, as the case may be, in that country; or

while he was waiting at any place outside the British Islands to proceed or return as aforesaid whether the delay was due to sickness or to any other cause outside his control.

applying the provisions of any Naval War Pensions Order to persons to whom this section applies in cases where their death or disablement is directly attributable to war injuries sustained by reason of their service, or to detention caused by reason of their service; and

the payment of allowances to or for the benefit of any such persons detained as aforesaid, or to or for the benefit of the dependants of such persons so detained.

pilots and apprentice pilots; and

masters and members of the crew of pilot boats, lightships, lighthouse tenders and lightship tenders.

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in the case of a master or member of the crew of a pilot boat, lighthouse tender or lightship tender, while he is in the service of the boat or tender F6or is at any place, except on land in the British Islands, in the course of proceeding to the boat or tender for the purpose of being in the service thereof, or of returning from the boat or tender after being in the service thereof.

in the case of a master or member of the crew of a lightship, while he is in the service of the lightship or F7is at any place, except on land in the British Islands, in the course of proceeding to the lightship for the purpose of being in the service thereof F7or of returning from the lightship after being in the service thereof.

applying the provisions of any Naval War Pensions Order to persons employed or engaged on ships forming part of F10the Royal Navy(being persons to whom the provisions of the Order would not otherwise apply) in cases where their death or disablement is directly attributable to war injuries sustained in such circumstances as may be specified in the scheme, or to detention caused by reason of their service in such ships; and

the payment of allowances to or for the benefit of any such persons detained as aforesaid, or to or for the benefit of the dependants of such persons so detained.

persons for war damage to their effects sustained by reason of their service as mariners in British ships, that is to say, sustained in any of the circumstances mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (g) of subsection (2) of section three of this Act. and

a person to whom section four of this Act applies, for war damage to his effects sustained in such of the circumstances mentioned in subsection (3) of that section as are applicable in his case; and

persons to whom section five of this Act applies, for war damage to their effects sustained in such circumstances as may be specified in the scheme.

for the determination of questions with respect to the effect or operation of the scheme, and

for empowering the Minister or the Board of Trade, as the case may be, to make regulations for giving effect to the purposes of the scheme.

F14such additions and modifications as appear to the Minister to be appropriate, having regard to the differences in the conditions of service of mariners and other persons and of officers and men of His Majesty’s naval forces respectively or to other circumstances; and

such conditions, limitations and exceptions as appear to the Minister to be expedient.