Admiralty Order in Council No. 78

15th July 1904.

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Whereas by Your Majesty's Order in Council of the 28 March 1903 it was provided that Pensions to the Widows and Compassionate Allowances to the Children of Chief Gunners and Gunners, Chief Boatswains and Boatswains, Chief Signal Boatswains and Signal Boatswains, promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, Chief Artificer Engineers and Artificer Engineers promoted to the rank of Engineer Lieutenant, and Chief Carpenters and Carpenters promoted to the rank of Carpenter Lieutenant are to be at the same rate and under the same conditions as those granted in the case of Lieutenants of the Royal Navy :

And whereas it appears that Article 2196 of Your Majesty's Regulations, which requires that an Officer in ordinary circumstances shall have ten years' or at least five years' seniority as Commissioned Officer on the active list to render his widow eligible for a pension, is inapplicable to Officers so promoted to the ranks of Lieutenant, Engineer Lieutenant, and Carpenter Lieutenant :

We humbly beg to recommend that Your Majesty will be pleased to exempt these Officers from the application of this regulation, such exemption to take effect from the first April one thousand nine hundred and three.

The Lords Commissioners of Your Majesty's Treasury have signified their concurrence in these proposals.

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