Admiralty Order in Council No. 12

15 March, 1893.

A.G.

Whereas by "The Naval and Marine Pay and Pension Act 1865" it is enacted (among other things) that Your Majesty in Council may from time to time make, such Orders in Council as seem meet for the better execution of any of the purposes of that Act. And whereas in our opinion it is advisable that we should be authorised to pay the claims of Parish Authorities against Naval Pensioners for the maintenance of themselves or others whom they are liable to maintain, and for that purpose that we should have conferred on us like powers to those conferred on Your Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for War by an Act passed in the 19th and 20th years of Your Majesty's reign entitled "An Act for further regulating the payment of the Out "Pensioners of Greenwich and Chelsea Hospitals":

We beg leave therefore humbly to recommend that Your Majesty will be graciously pleased by Your Order in Council to authorise the following provisions : -

If any relief be afforded to a Naval Pensioner or to any person whom he is liable to maintain by the Guardians of the Poor of any Union or Parish, or by the Overseers of any Parish or Township not under a Board of Guardians, or by the Parochial Board of any Parish in Scotland, the Admiralty may in their discretion repay to such Guardians, Overseers or Parochial Board out of the pension of such Naval Pensioner the amount of relief so advanced to, or expended on his account, not exceeding in any case where relief has been administered to his wife or one child only whom he is bound to maintain, the amount of one half, or where such relief has been administered to two or more such children, or to his wife and one or more such child or children, the amount of two thirds of his pension so advanced.

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