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916
GREENWICH HOSPITAI^— PENSIONS, ETC.
(o) contracted or developed disease which termin-
ated fatally within 2 years of removal from
duty on account of such disease.
The pensions and allowances will not be granted
to the widows or children of men who were killed
or drowned, or who died before the 11th October
3. Pension or allowance will not be granted when
death has been due to a man's own culpable action
or negligence, or when the widow was not legally
married to the man before the receipt of the wound
or injury, or before the disease was contracted.
4. Scale of Pensions and Allowances :—
Rank of Husband in
Royal Navy, Marines,
or Reserve Forces.
(1.) All Naval Ratings
below that of 2nd
Class Petty Officer
and Marines and Mar-
in* Artillery below
Corporals.
(2.) Second Class Petty
Officers (O.S.), rat-
ings ranking as
" Leading Seamen
passed for Petty Offi-
cer with over 3 years'
service in the Lead-
ing rate," Corporals
of Marines and Mar-
ine Artillery.
(3.) First Class Petty
Officers, (O.S.) Petty
Officers (N.S.), Ser
geants of Marines and
Marine Artillery.
(4.) Chief Petty Offi-
cers, Colour and Staff
Sergeants of Marines
and Marine Artillery.
Widow's
Pension
per Week.
Allowance for
each Child
dependent on
the Mother,
per Week.
6. If a widow remarries, her pension will cease,
and she will be eligible to receive a gratuity equal
to one year's pension in full discharge of all claima
upon the public bounty. The allowances to the
children may be continued.
6. Pensions and allowances are tenable subject to
good behaviour, and are granted at the discretion
of the Admiralty. They cannot be claimed as a
right. Any assignment, sale, or contract relating to
a pension or allowance is void.
7. If the mother dies, or the children are removed
from the mother's control on account of her mis-
conduct (see paragraph 6), the allowances in respect
of the children may be paid at twice the normal
rates (see paragraph 4); or provision may be made
for the maintenance of the children in a benevolent
institution subject to the concurrence of the Lords
Commissioners of the Treasury.
8. If parish relief is afforded in respect either of
the widow or her children, the pension and allow-
ance may, under such conditions as shall from time
to time be laid down, be applied in whole or in part
towards satisfying the claims of the parish authori-
ties
9. The widow will be required to make a declara-
tion quarterly or whenever it may be considered
necessary, before a duly authorized person, as to her
continued widowhood, and of any particulars re-
quired in reference to her family. (Forms for this
purpose will be supplied.)
10. Boys above 14 and girls above 16 will in ordin-
ary circumstances be ineligible for allowances. If,
however, it is shown to the satisfaction of the
Admiralty that, owing to mental or physical infirm-
ity, the boy or girl is unable to maintain himself or
herself, the allowance may be granted up to an age
not exceeding 21.
11. If the claim of a widow to a pension be not
established before her death, through her own
neglect or omission, the amount of the pension to
which she would have been entitled if living will
not be allowed to her representatives.
12. These regulations apply only from the 1st
July, 1901.