Admiralty Order in Council No. 38.

10th August 1903.

C.

Whereas by Orders in Council of Her late Majesty bearing date 25 June 1851, and the 4 July 1895, and Your Majesty's Orders in Council of the 13 May 1901, and the 24 April 1902, provision has been made, in the event of War or Emergency, or at other times, for the compulsory or voluntary re-employment of Retired Officers of Your Majesty's Navy, and others, formerly in Your Majesty's Navy, who have been allowed to resign their Commissions.

And whereas there is no power under existing Regulations to compensate the family of an Officer so re-employed who, having married whilst on the Retired List or after resignation of his Commission (unless in the case of a Retired Officer, retirement took place before the 10th November 1886, and subject to the provisions of the Commutation Acts of 1871 and 1882), loses his life from causes attributable to the Service.

We beg leave humbly to recommend that, in the case of the death of any such Officer from causes attributable to the Service, a Pension and Compassionate Allowances shall be granted to the widow and children on the special scale applicable to the rank held by the Officer at the time of his death, irrespectively of whether his marriage took place when on the Active or Retired List, or after resignation of his Commission, always subject, in the case of a Retired Officer, to the operation of the Commutation Acts of 1871 and 1882 under which a proportionate reduction must be made in the amounts of the pension or compassionate allowances awarded to a widow married, or children born, after the Officer has wholly or partially commuted his Retired Pay.

The Lords Commissioners of Your Majesty's Treasury have signified their concurrence in this proposal.

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