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S.I. No. 6/1928 - Army Pensions (Investigation of Applications) Regulations, 1928.
Table of Provisions (11)
Statutory Text (11 Articles)
1. What was the cause of the death of the person in respect of whom the claim is made ?
2. From what disability or disabilities did deceased suffer ?
3. Was death due solely to such disability or disabilities, and was such attributable to service ? If death was due to more than one disability, it should be so specified.
4. If so due, specify as regards the following Forces :—
(a) The Irish Volunteers, or
(b) The Irish Citizen Army, 1916, or
(c) The National Army.
In each case under 2, the date or period when, in the opinion of the Board, the disability which was the cause of death was incurred.
5. Were any of the disabilities under 2 due to any serious negligence or misconduct on the part of the deceased person ?
6. In case there are more disabilities than one, as set out in question 2, was death due solely to wound or to disease, having regard to the provisions of
Section 14
(9) and
15
(6) of the
Army Pensions Act, 1927
?
7. Were there any special circumstances connected with this case which the Board consider should be taken into consideration by the Minister ?
8. Were there any special circumstances connected with this case which the Board consider should be taken into consideration by the Minister ?
9. Was applicant medically examined by the Board ?
A.P. 40.
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENCE
Report on a Claim for an Allowance or Gratuity.
Ref. No..........................
Ref. No...........................
To the Army Pensions Board.
To the Minister for Defence.
I am directed by the Minister for Defence to transmit the accompanying claim for investigation and report in accordance with
Section 7
of the
Army Pensions Act, 1927
, and the Regulations made thereunder. The report should take the form of replies to the questions set out herewith.
The following members of the Army Pensions Board attended :—
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The report of the Board on application for allowance or gratuity in respect of the death of
Date ............................................................ ......
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Claim of ............................................................ ......
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is as follows :—
in respect of the death of
(Where the findings of the Board are not unanimous, separate reports signed by the individual members of the Board should be furnished).
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Signed ............................................................ ....
Date........................................................
Chairman of the Board.
Date..........................................................
10. Whenever the Minister, in consequence of a report from the Board, has refused an application for a pension, allowance or gratuity, and the applicant satisfies the Minister that he can adduce additional evidence which was not previously submitted to the Board and which might materially affect the opinion of the Board as contained in such report, the Minister may refer the application and report to the Board for further consideration, and the Board shall receive and consider such additional evidence as may be adduced by the applicant and shall return the report to the Minister with such (if any) amendments therein or additions thereto as they shall consider proper to make.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Minister for Defence,
this 28th day of January, 1928.
(Signed), PEADAR MAC MATHGHAMHNA,
Secretary, Department of Defence.
I consent to the foregoing Regulations.
EARNAN DE BLAGHD,
Minister for Finance,
A.P. 39.
SCHEDULE No 1.
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENCE.
REPORT ON A CLAIM FOR PENSION.
Ref. No.........................
Ref. No.........................
To the Army Pensions Board.
To the Minister for Defence.
I am directed by the Minister for Defence to transmit the accompanying claim of........................
The following members of the Army Pensions Board attended :—
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for investigation and report in accordance with
Section 7
of the
Army Pensions Act, 1927
, and the Regulations made thereunder. The report should take the form of replies to the questions set out herewith.
The report of the Board is as follows
(Where the findings of the Board are not unanimous, separate reports signed by the individual members of the Board should be furnished).
Date.........................................................
Signed............................................................ ....
Chairman of the Board.
STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1928. No. 6.
ARMY PENSIONS (INVESTIGATION OF APPLICATIONS) REGULATIONS, 1928.
WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (1) of
section 27
of the
Army Pensions Act, 1927
(No. 12 of 1927), that the Minister for Defence may by order make regulations in regard to any matter or thing referred to in that Act as prescribed or as being or to be prescribed by regulations made under that Act, but where such regulations are referred to in that Act as being or to be made with the consent of the Minister for Finance the same shall not be made without such consent
AND WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (2) of section 7 of the said Act, that the Army Pensions Board shall report to the Minister for Defence in the prescribed form on every application referred to them under the said section and for the purpose of such report shall cause every such application to be investigated in such manner as shall be prescribed by regulations made under that Act with the consent of the Minister for Finance
NOW, the Minister for Defence, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by the
Army Pensions Act, 1927
(No. 12 of 1927), and of every and any other power him in this behalf enabling, and, so far as relates to the manner in which applications referred to the Army Pensions Board under Section 7 of the said
Army Pensions Act, 1927
, are to be investigated, with the consent of the Minister for Finance testified by his signature affixed to these Regulations, doth by this order make the following Regulations, that is to say :—