SECTION I. PENSIONS FOR WOUNDS AND INJURIES.

1897. Claims of Officers wounded or disabled.-His Majesty is pleased to reserve to himself the consideration of the claims of officers of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines for pensions on account of having been wounded or disabled in His Service, as their several cases shall be represented to His Majesty by the Admiralty.

1898. Conditions of grant.-A pension for wounds will only be granted in the event of an officer having lost an eye, or a limb, or the use of a limb, or sustained an injury equivalent or nearly equivalent thereto in His Majesty's Service, and no injury caused by an officer's own neglect or carelessness will be considered for compensation.

2. Marine Officers are granted pensions and gratuities for wounds and injuries received in action, under the Regulations and on the scale laid down for the Army.

1899. Maximum Amounts, Commissioned Officers.-The maximum pension to be recommended to His Majesty, in ordinary cases, for the loss of an eye, or a limb, or of the use of a limb, or for an injury, equivalent or nearly equivalent thereto, shall be according to the following scale :

Military Branch.

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Other Branches -continued.

Royal Marines.

1900. Commissioned Warrant, Warrant, and Subordinate Officers.-The following officers, at the discretion of the Admiralty, shall be awarded pensions for the loss of an eye or a limb, or the use of a limb, in His Majesty's Service, or for an injury equivalent or nearly equivalent thereto, according to the following scale :-

1901. Separate Injuries.-Officers who have lost more than one eye or one limb, or who may have sustained injuries equivalent or nearly equivalent thereto, may be awarded a pension for each eye or each limb.

1902. Alterations in Rates.-The foregoing rates of pension may be altered from time to time, at the discretion of the Admiralty, who also reserve to themselves a discretionary power to recommend to His Majesty that pensions in excess of these rates may be awarded in special cases, and to grant special pensions to the officers named in Article 1900, should the circumstances of their case be exceptional.

1903. Temporary Pensions.-When the ultimate extent of the wound or injury is doubtful, temporary pensions only shall be awarded, and the continuance and amount of them will depend on subsequent medical surveys.

1904. Definition of " In action."-Wounds received " in action " are wounds received in fight with the enemy, or with pirates or smugglers, or in encounters with the ships of friends by mistake, or in quelling disturbances on shore or afloat.

1905. Regulation of award by Rank.-The pension granted to an officer shall be according to the rank which he held at the time he received the wound or injury; and such pension shall not be increased in consequence of any subsequent promotion; but if an officer should have been employed at the time he received his wound or injury in the discharge of duties superior to those of his actual rank, or should his promotion be antedated to the day oil which he received his wound or injury, the pension may be given in accordance with the rate prescribed for the confirmed rank immediately above that held by him at the time of receiving his wound or injury, or for the rank to which he was so promoted.

1906. Conditions under which paid.-A pension awarded for wounds or injuries may be held together with any other pension to which the officer may be entitled, and may be received by an officer while serving.

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1907. Claims, when to be made.-Claims for pensions for wounds or injuries shall not be taken into consideration if not preferred within five years after the date of injury, with the exception of claims from officers promoted from commissioned warrant or warrant rank who were injured before promotion.

1908. Preliminary Survey.-Officers who have received wounds in action shall not be surveyed, with a view to being granted compensation for the same, until the expiration of 12 months from the date of injury* ; but officers who have been injured on duty may be surveyed before the expiration of 12 months. In no case shall a pension be awarded for wounds or injuries until the officer has been surveyed at the Admiralty, unless it be impossible for him to attend, in which case the survey may be held elsewhere.

1909. Date of commencement.-Pensions awarded for wounds or injuries shall commence, as a rule, from the date of the Order in Council, or other document, awarding the same, but special dates of commencement may be fixed in special cases.

SECTION II. GRATUITIES FOR WOUNDS AND INJURIES.

1910. Gratuities for Injuries in Action.-Gratuities in addition to pensions for wounds, shall not be granted, unless an officer shall have been wounded in action, as defined in Article 1904, and shall have lost an eye or a limb, or the use of a limb, or sustained an injury equivalent or nearly equivalent thereto.

2. Amount of Gratuity and cost of cure.-In such cases, the officer, provided he make his claim within five years from the date of injury, shall be allowed a gratuity of one year's full pay .of the rank which he held at the time he received the wound, and shall be further allowed such expenses of his cure, if it is not performed at His Majesty's expense, as shall be certified by the Medical Director-General to be fair and reasonable, provided that such expenses do not in any case amount to more than one year's full pay of the rank which he held at the time he received the wound.

3. Wound not equal to loss of a Limb.-In the event of the wound not amounting to the loss of an eye or a limb, or the use of a limb, or not being equivalent or nearly equivalent thereto, the officer, provided he makes his claim within five years from the date of the injury, shall be allowed such gratuity, without pension, as the case may appear to the Admiralty to require, provided it does not amount to one year's full pay of the confirmed rank which the officer held at the time he received the wound. The expenses of cure shall likewise be allowed, under the conditions and restrictions specified in the preceding clause.

4. Basis of Gratuity.-In the calculation of these gratuities, the officer's command money, and other full pay allowances except table money, shall be included.

1911. Injuries on Service not in Action.-Officers who have not been wounded in action, but who have been injured on duty, and whose injuries do not amount to the loss of an eye or a limb, or the loss of the use of a limb, or are not equivalent or nearly equivalent thereto, may, at the discretion of the Admiralty, be granted gratuities of less than one year's full pay, of the confirmed rank which the officer held at the time he received the injury, provided the claim is preferred within five years from the date thereof.

* An officer wounded in action, whose injury is equivalent or nearly equivalent to the loss of a limb, receives a gratuity of one year's pay, and his expenses of cure, and full pay till cured. Should the injury not be of that extent, he still receives a gratuity, his expenses of cure, and full pay till cured, though not a pension. See 1352 (Commissioned Officers wounded in Action).

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2. Basis of Gratuity.-In the calculation of these gratuities, the officer's command money, and other full pay allowances except table money, shall be included.

3. This Article does not apply to commissioned warrant officers and warrant officers, whose cases are dealt with in the Articles following.

1912. Commissioned Warrant and Warrant Officers.-Officers promoted from commissioned warrant or warrant rank, who were injured before promotion, are exempted from the regulation referred to in Articles 1910 and 1911 requiring application to be made within five years.

1913. Certain Officers when ruptured.-Commissioned warrant officers and warrant officers who have been ruptured on duty, may, at the discretion of the Admiralty, be awarded when retired, gratuities of 101. for a single rupture, 201. for a double rupture, and six months' pay for an umbilical rupture. Applications for compensation for such injuries shall not be considered until the officer is finally discharged from the Service.

2. Minor Injuries.-Gratuities of small amounts not exceeding six months' pay for minor injuries received on duty may also be awarded, at the discretion of the Admiralty, to these officers, when retired provided they have not already received compensation for the same. See 1911 (Injuries sustained on Duty).

1914. Not payable to Representatives.-Gratuities for wounds or injuries shall only be paid to the wounded officer himself ; and shall not be payable to any relative or representative of a deceased officer, unless the gratuity shall have been awarded before his death.

SECTION III. RETIRING PENSIONS TO COMMISSIONED WARRANT OFFICERS, WARRANT OFFICERS, AND COAST GUARD OFFICERS.

1915. Age for Retirement.-Retiring pensions shall be awarded to commissioned warrant officers, warrant officers, and coast guard officers, under the following regulations :

1. They shall be pensioned at 55 years of age, or at any lesser age, if found unfit for or unworthy of, further employment; and they may be pensioned, by the permission of the Admiralty, at their own request at 50 years of age.

See 1918 (Age for Retirement of Chief and Head Schoolmasters), and Appendix XI. (Powers of Admiralty in regard to Officers).

2. Scale.-The following shall be the scale of pensions

Ranks.	For each Year's Service above the Rank of Petty Officer at the Rate of	Addition for each Years Service as Seaman or Petty Officer.	Maximum for Service only.	Minimum for Service only.
Chief Gunner	�5 0s.	�1 10s.	�150	No fixed minimum.
Chief Boatswain
Chief Signal Boatswain
Commissioned Telegraphist
Chief Carpenter
Gunner, Boatswain, Signal Boatswain, Warrant Telegraphist, and Carpenter Under 10 years	�3 10s.	�1 10s.	�120	Under five years' service as warrant officer, �40 With five years' service as warrant officer and under 10, �50.
With 10 years	�4 0s.	�1 10s.	�120	With 10 years' service as warrant officer and under 15, �75. With 15 years' service as warrant officer, �95.

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Ranks.	For each Year's Service above the Rank of Chief Petty Officer at the Rate of	Addition for each Year's Service as Chief Petty Officer.	Addition for each Years Continuous Service prior to being rated Chief Petty Officer.	Maximum for Service only.	Minimum for Service only.
Chief Artificer Engineer, Commissioned Mechanician and Commissioned Electrician	�5 0s.	�2 10s.	�1 10s.	�150	No fixed minimum.
Chief Master-at-Arms, Artificer Engineer, Warrant Mechanician, Warrant Electrician, Warrant Armourer, Head Wardmaster, Warrant Writer Head Steward, and Instructor in Cookery: Under 10 years -	�3 10s.	�2 10s	�1 10s.	�120	Under five years' service as warrant officer, �50. With five years' service as warrant officer and under 10, �60.
With 10 years	�4 0s.	�2 10s	�1 10s.	�120	With 10 years' service as warrant officer and under 15, �75. With 15 years' service as warrant officer, �95.




Ranks.	For each Year's Service above the Rank of Petty Officer at the Rate of	Addition for each Year's Service as Seaman or Petty Officer.	Maximum for Service only.	Minimum for Service only.
Divisional Chief Officer and Chief Officer in Charge of Royal Naval Reserve Battery	�5 0s.	�1 0s.	�120	�50
Chief Officer of Station	�4 0s.	�1 0s.	�100	�45




Rank	Scale	Maximum.
Chief Officer of Cruiser	�100 a year, with an additional �5. for each year's service as Chief Officer.	�130
Senior Mate of Cruiser	�82 a year, with an additional �3 for each year's service as a Senior Mate.	�110
Second Mate of Cruiser	�62 a year, with an additional �3 for each year's service as a Second Mate.	�100

3. Yard Time.-All such officers holding appointments in His Majesty's yards, if not entitled to civil superannuation, shall be allowed to count such service as time towards pension on the above scale.
4. Injuries sustained on Duty.-In the event of commissioned warrant officers, warrant officers, and Divisional and other Chief Officers of

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Coast Guard on shore having sustained injuries on duty not nearly equivalent to the loss of a limb, or being disabled by sickness contracted in the Service, and not from want of proper care on their part, an increase of not more than 101. a year may be made to whatever retiring allowance may be awarded to them under the foregoing scale, provided they have not already received compensation for the same.

5. For Ruptures and minor injuries received on duty, gratuities may be granted under Article 1913, at the discretion of the Admiralty, instead of the above increase.
6. Medical Report.-Whenever an application for pension on account of age, long service, or disability is made by any such officer who has received a wound or injury in the Service, the Captain will direct the Medical Officer to make a report, which he will forward with the application, for the information of the Admiralty, stating clearly the extent to which the injury affects the applicant, and the degree in which it incapacitates him from contributing towards his own support. If the injury should have been received before 30th August 1870, and no hurt certificate be produced, the applicant's statement should be supported by any documentary evidence that can be produced.
7. (g) Special Pensions or Gratuities in excess of the foregoing scale for service, at the discretion of the Admiralty, may be awarded when special services have been rendered requiring special reward ; and such lower rates of pension as the Admiralty may think proper may be granted to officers who have been found to be unworthy of further employment. See Appendix XI. (Powers of Admiralty in regard to Officers).
8. Time not allowed.-Time during which an officer shall not have maintained a good character in the ships in which he has served shall not be allowed to reckon as service for pension.
9. Pensions as Seamen.-Commissioned warrant officers, warrant officers, and Divisional and other Chief Officers of Coast Guard on shore, in such cases as may be for their advantage, may be pensioned on the scale for seamen, their service in the above ranks being allowed to reckon as superior petty time, under Article 1938.
10. When dismissed the Service.-All commissioned warrant officers and warrant officers who have been dismissed from His Majesty's Service for what may be considered venial offences in the case of seamen, may be allowed naval pen-,ions on the seamen's scale, at the discretion of the Admiralty, provided they have 21 years' service, or are unfit for service as seamen in the Navy, from age or other causes. In such cases, time served above the rating of petty officer may be allowed to reckon as superior single petty time, under Article 1938.
11. Acting Time.-Time served as acting warrant officer, unless it be covered by a warrant from the Admiralty, shall count as chief petty officer or petty officer time as provided for by Article 254, clauses 1 and 2.
12. Conditions of Payment.-The pensions of commissioned warrant officers and warrant officers will be held only during good behaviour. See 2017 (Pa Payment of Half and Retired Pay and Pensions).
13. Injuries, C.G. Cruiser Officers.-The case of a Chief or other officer of coast guard cruisers, who may sustain a wound or injury on duty, will be specially considered.

See 1847, clause 11 (Giving up Books on quitting His Majesty's Service).

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1916. Fractions of a Year.-Periods of service of less than a year in each grade, but which amount in the aggregate to one year or more, will be calculated in the following manner:

1. When the combined fractions do not equal 365 days, no pension shall be assigned in respect thereof.
2. When they equal or exceed 365 days, one year's pension and no more shall be assigned in respect thereof, calculated thus :
1. For each day in the fraction of service as seaman or petty officer, 1/365th of the annual rate earned by such service shall be assigned.
2. For each of so many days out of the fraction of service in a higher grade as are required to make up the preceding fraction to a full year, 3, , of the annual rate earned by such service in that higher grade shall be assigned.

1917. Date for Discharge to Pension.-Commissioned warrant officers, warrant officers, Chief and other officers of Coast Guard, and subordinate officers on being pensioned for age or disability, are to be retained on ship's books till such date as may be fixed by the Admiralty in each case for their discharge to pension.

1918. Chief and Head Schoolmasters.-Retiring pensions shall be awarded to Chief and Head Schoolmasters under the following regulations:

1. They shall be pensioned at 55 years of age, or at any less age, if found unfit -for, or unworthy of, further employment ; and they may be pensioned, by the permission of the Admiralty, at their own request at 50 years of age. Chief and Head Schoolmasters may, however, be retained on the active list up to the age of 60, if the Admiralty consider that it will be for the benefit of the Service.
2. The following shall be the scale of pensions, but Chief Schoolmasters shall receive an additional 6d. a day for each year's service as Chief Schoolmaster, up to a maximum pension of �150 a year

Head Schoolmasters in the Navy on 1st July 1889 will reckon all time served in that rating as warrant time.

2. Head Schoolmasters will be pensioned on the terms laid down in Article 1939 for Naval Schoolmasters in cases in which such terms will be to their advantage, service in the rank of Head Schoolmaster counting as superior petty time.

1919. Certificate, &c., on being pensioned.-On receipt of the intimation of the amount of pension awarded to a commissioned warrant officer, warrant officer, or Chief or other officer of Coast Guard, a certificate on form S. 411 is to be prepared and delivered to him by his Captain, and a return of his discharge (form S. 50) is also to be rendered by the Captain to the Accountant-General.

1920. Temporary Service Officers.-The gratuities to be awarded on discharge to Surgeons entered for temporary service, together with the scale of gratuities and allowances to their widows and children in case of injury or death through the act of the enemy are laid down in Appendix XII.

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SECTION IV. DISABILITY PENSIONS TO SUBORDINATE OFFICERS.

1921. Midshipmen, Clerks, Naval Cadets, and Assistant Clerks who may be discharged from His Majesty's Service for permanent sickness or disability contracted in the Service, and not due to constitutional causes, or their own carelessness or neglect, and who shall be deemed fit and deserving objects for relief, shall be allowed pensions, at the discretion of the Admiralty, either for life or for a limited period, of not less than Is., and not more than 2s. 6d. a day, according to the extent of the disability.

SECTION V. GOOD SERVICE PENSIONS.

1922. Numbers and Amounts.-The following are the established good service pensions for naval and marine officers :-

2. These pensions shall not be held in addition to any other pensions, unless it shall be a pension conferred for wounds or injuries received in the Service.

3. Retired Officers.-The good service pensions of retired officers are subject to the general regulations contained in Article 2017.

4. Naval Aides-de-Camp.-A Flag Officer shall give up his good service pension if he is appointed naval aide-de-camp to His Majesty.

A naval aide-de-camp, to His Majesty deriving emolument from his office, shall not be allowed to hold any pension, unless it is a pension conferred for wounds or injuries received in the Service.

1923. Distinguished Service at Sea.-Good service pensions shall be awarded to Flag Officers and Captains for distinguished service at sea, and in determining their claims preference shall be given, in cases of special gallantry, to officers who have commanded ships in action against the enemy.

2. Flag Officers and Captains.-The good service pensions for Flag Officers may be conferred on officers either on the active or the retired list, provided, in the case of retired officers, that retirement shall have taken place after attaining flag rank, and that the retired pay, together with the good service pension, shall not exceed the half-pay of an Admiral of the Fleet.

3. Flag Officers in receipt of these pensions shall be allowed to retain them after being retired ; but, if the retired pay and good service pension together exceed the half-pay of an Admiral of the Fleet, the retired pay shall be reduced so as to make the two together equal to that amount.

4. An Admiral of the Fleet on the active list shall not be allowed to hold any pension, unless it is a pension conferred for wounds or injuries received in the Service.

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5. An officer promoted in pursuance of His Majesty's pleasure to the rank of Admiral of the Fleet on the retired list, under the provisions of the Order in Council of 22nd February 1870, Section X., paragraph 7, in consideration of the rank not carrying increase of retired pay, shall be allowed to retain the good service pension, or, if not in possession of one, shall be eligible for it.

6. Captains, Royal Navy, shall be eligible for the award of good service pensions while on the active list only, and shall forfeit them on promotion to be Flag Officers on the active list.

7. Captains, Royal Navy, will relinquish their good service pensions on retirement, and no Captain will be allowed to receive any addition to his retired pay on account of a good service pension held by him upon retirement, except in cases of retirement for ill-health caused by the Service. In such cases officers will receive, at the discretion of the Admiralty, an addition ranging from a minimum of 501. to a maximum of 1501., the increase over the minimum to be at the rate of 151. for each year's service in excess of 20 years. In no case however, will the retired pay of a Captain exceed 6001. a year.

8. Conditions under which payable.-Flag Officers and Captains are allowed to receive their good service pensions, notwithstanding appointment to full pay or civil salary.

9. Suspension on account of Civil Pension.-Should any Flag Officer holding a good service pension be in receipt of or become entitled to a civil pension exceeding the value of his good service pension, the latter pension shall be suspended so long as he receives such civil pension, and the vacancy thus occasioned may be filled up ; but, as a rule, it is not intended that more than one such supernumerary pension shall be in existence at the same time.

1924. Engineer Officers.-Engineer Vice-Admirals, Engineer Rear-Admirals, and Engineer Captains, shall be eligible for the award of good service pensions whether on the active or retired list, but when a good service pension is awarded to an Engineer Captain on the active list he shall relinquish it on promotion to Engineer Rear Admiral, or on retirement.

1925. Royal Marines.-General Officers of Royal Marines shall be eligible for the award of good service pensions whether on the active or retired lists.

2. A General Officer awarded a good service pension while on the active list shall be allowed to retain it on being retired, except as provided in clause 3.

3. A General Officer who has held a good service pension while serving as Deputy Adjutant-General, and whose half or retired pay on vacating the appointment, together with the good service pension, would amount to more than �950, shall relinquish the good service pension and receive half or retired pay of �950. a year.

4. A General Officer who has not been in receipt of a good service pension while serving as Deputy Adjutant-General, and whose half or retired pay on vacating the appointment falls short of �950. a year, shall be eligible for the award of a good service pension, subject to the condition that, if the half or retired pay and the good service pension combined be in excess of �950. a year, a reduction will be made in the half or retired pay proportionate to such ,excess.

5. Officers retired from the position of Colonel Commandant or placed on the reserved list of Colonels, shall relinquish the good service pension, but they are eligible for the good service pensions for General Officers.

6. Colonels and Lieutenant-Colonels shall be eligible for the award of good service pensions while on the active list only, and shall forfeit them on promotion to be General Officers on the active list.

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7. Colonels and Lieutenant-Colonels, Royal Marines, retired from those ranks shall be allowed to receive, in retired pay, together with good service pension, a ruin not exceeding 6001. a year ; but should the two together exceed that sum, they will be retired on 6001., relinquishing their good service pension.

1926. Medical Officers.-Medical officers shall be eligible for the award of good service pensions, whether on the active or retired lists.

2. .A medical officer awarded a good service pension while on the active list, shall be allowed to retain it on being retired.

SECTION VI. NAVAL, GREENWICH HOSPITAL, AND TRAVERS PENSIONS.

1927. List of Naval and G. H. Pensions.-The following are the established Naval and Greenwich Hospital pensions for officers :

2. Conditions under which held.-These pensions shall not be held in addition to any other pensions, except it be in addition

1. To a pension granted as retiring allowance to a commissioned warrant officer, warrant officer, Chief Officer or Senior Mate of cruiser, Chief Officer of Royal Naval Reserve battery or of Coast Guard station, or warrant officer, Royal Marines.
2. Or, to a pension or annuity conferred for wounds or injuries received in the Service.

* In the case of such of these officers as retired before 1st October 1875, only First Class Gunners, First Class Boatswains, and First Class Carpenters are eligible for these pensions.

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3. Or, to a pension or annuity granted with the Victoria Cross, and its additional bars, or with the Conspicuous Gallantry Medal.
4. Or, to a sum added to pension, on account of the reward for distinguished or meritorious service granted under Article 1193.

3. Travers Pensions.-Lieutenants or officers who have retired from the active list of Lieutenants with the rank of Commander are eligible for Travers pensions of �75 per annum each. The number of such pensions will be fixed from time to time, in accordance with the funds available.

These pensions cannot be held in addition to Naval or Greenwich Hospital pensions, and are subject to the general regulations contained in Article 2017.

4. Officers eligible.-Only officers on the reserved and retired lists shall be eligible for these pensions ; they shall not be conferred as a qualification for retirement.

5. Officers shall be eligible only for the pension applicable to the rank which they last held on the active list.

6. Retired Commanders on the O. list shall not be eligible for Naval or Greenwich Hospital pensions.

1928. Naval and G.H. Pensions, Award.-Naval and Greenwich Hospital pensions (which are subject to the general regulations contained in Article 2017) are established for affording some relief to retired officers, and are to be awarded to such retired officers, as, in the opinion of the Admiralty, may be most deserving, provided they have served as follows:

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2. Officers who have received severe wounds in action or disabling hurts on actual service, or officers retired for physical unfitness which arose in and is directly due to the Service, shall be exempt from the foregoing rule respecting time of service.

1929. Service for these pensions to be calculated as follows:

I.-Officers of the Military Branch.

Time while borne on ship's books to be reckoned in the same way as for retired pay.

Navigating Officers will reckon as full service all time served

1. As harbour service afloat;
2. When borne on ship's books, additional for service on shore; or
3. As Staff-Captain, Master Attendant, Assistant Master Attendant, or King's Harbour Master.

II. Officers of other Branches.

2. Junior service does not reckon for any other ranks than those of Captain, Commander, or Lieutenant.

SECTION VII. GENERAL REGULATIONS.

1930.-Commutation.-Information respecting the commutation of retired pay and pensions can be obtained on application in writing to the Secretary of the Admiralty.

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