Navy lists > Quarterly > 1916 > January

GREENWICH HOSPITALr-PENSIONS, ETC.
915
REGULATIONS FOR THE GRANT OF PEN-
SIONS TO WIDOWS, AND ALLOWANCES TO
CHILDREN, AND OF GRATUITIES TO
PARENTS AND OTHER RELATIVES OF
, SEAMEN, MARINF.S, AND OTHER SEAFAK-
S.ilNG PERSONS.
1. Under the 2nd section of Act 46 and 47 Vict.,
Cap. 32, pensions and allowances are granted by the
Admiralty out of the funds of Greenwich Hospital
to widows and children of :—
Stia) Non-commissioned officers and petty officers
and men of the Royal Navy and Marines
killed or drowned in the service of the Crown,
or on lifeboat service : and of
(6) Men of the Royal Naval Reserve Forces killed
or drowned in the service of the Crown.
2. These pensions and allowances are granted
also to Widows and children of non-commissioned
officers, petty officers or men as aforesaid who die
from the effects of any injury or disease when it shall
be proved to the satisfaction of the Admiralty:—
(a) That the injury or disease was caused by
accident on duty in the service of the Crown,
and that the man died therefrom within two
years; or
(b) That the injury or disease was caused by extra-
ordinary exposure or exertion on duty in the
service of the Crown, and that it terminated
fatally within two years of being first cer-
tified.
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 injury
or before the disease was contracted.
4. The Pensions are supplemented from Naval
Funds and awards are made according to the fol-
lowing scale:—
Scale of Pension and AUowanees.
Rating.
Widow's Pension per
Week.
sU
SS^
a
e&»
^^'i
Eh
£"
(1.) Able Seamen and
other persons in
the same category,
including Leading
rates not men-
tioned under (2),
M a r 1 n o,s and
Marine Artillery
(2) Second Class
Petty Officer (O.S.)
ratings ranking as
"Leading Seamen
passed for Petty
Officer with over 3
years' service in
the Leading rate,"
Corporals of Mar-
ines and Marine
Artillery.
(3) FirstClass Petty
Offlcers(O.S.),Petty
Officers (N.S.;, Ser-
geants of Marines
and Marine Ai'til
lery.
(4) Chief Petty Offi-
cers, Colour and
Staff Sergeants of
Marines and Mar-
ine Artillery.
Rates in excess of the foregoing scale may, at the
discretion of the Admiralty, be awarded in cases
needing special relief.
5. If a widow re-marry, her pension will cease, and
she will be eligible to receive a Gratuity equal to
one year's pension in full discharge of all claims
upon the public bounty. Allowances to 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 a mother die, or cliildren be removed from a
mother's control on account of her misconduct (see
paragraph S) the allowances in respect of the children
may be paid at twice the normal rates (see para-
graph 4) ; or provision may be made for the main-
tenance of the children in a benevolent institution.
8. If a widow be in receipt of parish relief. In
respect either of lierself or her family, the payment
of the pension and allowance may be suspended. In
no case will the pension or allowance be paid to the
parish authorities.
9. Widows will be required to make a declaratiou
quarterly or whenever it may be considered neces-
sary before a duly authorised person as to their
continued widowhood, and of any particulars re-
quired in reference to their families. (Forms for
this purpose will be supplied. J
10. Boys above 14 and girls above 16 will, as a
rule, be ineligible for allowances.
11. If the claim of a widow to a pension be not
established before her death, the amount of the
pension to which she would have been entitled to
living will not be allowed to her representatives.
12. These regulations apply only from the 1st
July, 1903.
13. In the event of men specified in paragraphs 1
and 2 not leaving widows or children, but leaving
parents or other relatives dependent upon them,
gratuities not exceeding one year's full wages may
be given at the discretion of the Admiralty to such
parents or relatives, provided the total expenditure
in such gratuities shall not exceed in any one year
the sum of five hundred pounds.
Note.- Widows of Coast Guard Men entitled to Civil
Pensions are excepted from these Reg%datioiis.
By command of their Lordsiiips,
Evan MAcGsEaoe.
Admiralty,
Greenwich Hospital Department,
9th October 1903.
REGULATIONS FOR THE GRANT OF PEN-
SIONS TO WIDOWS AND ALLOWANCES TO
CHILDREN OF SEAMEN AND MARINES.
1. Pensions and allowances may be granted by
the Admiralty to widows and children of non-com-
missioned Ofllcers and Petty Officers and men of the
Royal Navy and Marines, and of tlie Reserve Forces
who are killed or drowned, or who die from wounds
or injuries received, or disease contracted, during
warlike operations.
2. These pensions and allowances will be granted
only in cases where men have, during warlike opera-
tions, —
(a) been killed or drowned ; or
(b) received wounds or injuries, and have died
tlierefrom within 2 years ; or