Bermuda Consolidated Legislation

BERMUDA
1950 : 85

WAR PENSIONERS (PAYMENT OF BONUS) ACT 1950

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

1 Interpretation

2 Temporary bonus

3 Sections 21 and 22 of principal Act to apply

4 Suspension of payment

5 Commencement

SCHEDULE
Amounts of temporary bonus

[30 December 1950]

[preamble and words of enactment omitted]

Interpretation

1 In this Act—

"the principal Act" means the Pensions and Gratuities (War Ser vice) Act 1947 [title 9 item 39];

"war pension" means a pension awarded under section 11 under section 13 or under section 15 of the principal Act;

"war pensioner" means a person who has been awarded and is being paid a pension under the principal Act;

"temporary bonus," in relation to a war pensioner, means tempo rary bonus or allowance payable under this Act.

Temporary bonus

2 Subject to the succeeding provisions of this Act, there shall be payable to every war pensioner in addition to his war pension temporary bonus of an amount set out in the Table contained in the Schedule.

Sections 21 and 22 of principal Act to apply

3 The provisions of section 21 and of section 22 of the principal Act (which provisions relate to the payment of war pensions) shall have effect with respect to the payment of, or other dealing with, any tempo rary bonus as those provisions have effect with respect to the payment of, or other dealing with, war pensions.

Suspension of payment

4 Any temporary bonus otherwise payable to a war pensioner—

(a) shall not be paid in respect of any period during which the war pensioner is not paid a war pension; and

(b) shall, in any case where the war pension paid to the war pensioner is reduced under section 23, under section 24 or under section 27 of the principal Act, be reduced pro portionately;

(c) shall, in any case where the war pension otherwise payable to the war pensioner is paid to any other person, or is otherwise administered, under section 25, under section 26 or under section 27 of the principal Act, be deemed for the purposes of those sections to be part of the war pension otherwise payable under the principal Act to the war pensioner and may be dealt with accord ingly.

Commencement

5 This Act shall be deemed to have had effect as from 1 April 1950.

SCHEDULE

TABLE

Provision of the princi pal Act under which war pension awarded

Amount of temporary allowance payable

Paragraph (a) of section 11 of the principal Act:	Equivalent to one fifth of the amount of the war pension paid under paragraph (a) of sub section (1) of section 12 of the principal Act.
Paragraphs (b) or (c) of section 11 of the princi pal Act:	Equivalent to one fifth of the appropriate rate set out in the First Schedule to the princi pal Act and referred to in paragraph (b) of sub section (1) of section 12 of the principal Act.
Paragraph (d) of section 11 of the principal Act:	Equivalent to one fifth of the appropriate rate set out in the First Schedule to the princi pal Act and referred to in paragraph (c) of sub section (1) of section 12 of the principal Act.
Paragraph (a) of section 13 of the principal Act:	Equivalent to one fifth of the amount of the war pension paid under paragraph (a) of sub section (1) of section 14 of the principal Act.
Paragraphs (b) or (c) of section 13 of the princi pal Act:	Equivalent to one fifth of the appropriate rate set out in the Second Schedule to the princi pal Act and referred to in paragraph (b) of sub section (1) of section 14 of the principal Act.
Paragraph (d) of section 13 of the principal Act:	Equivalent to one fifth of the appropriate rate set out in the Second Schedule to the princi pal Act and referred to in paragraph (c) of sub section (1) of section 14 of the principal Act.
Section 15 of the prin cipal Act:	Equivalent to one fifth of the amount of the war pension paid under section 15 of the princi pal Act together with the amount (if any) of any pension awarded under any United King dom Statute, or under the law of any Dominion or under any Royal Warrant and taken into account by virtue of that section in calcu lating the amount of war pension falling to be paid thereunder.

[The Act, originally of limited duration, was continued in force indefinitely by 1962 : 130.]

[Certain provisions of 1951 : 74 are incorporated.]