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1919 01 17 Present, The King's Most Excellent Majesty in Council Whereas there was this day read at the Board a Memorial from the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, dated the 13th day of January, 1919, in the words following, viz. : Whereas by Section 3 of the Naval and Marine Pay and Pensions Act, 1865, it is enacted, inter alia, that all pay, pensions, or other allowances in the nature thereof, payable in respect of services in Your Majesty's Naval or Marine Force to a person being or having been an Officer, Seaman, or Marine therein, shall be paid in such manner, and subject to such restrictions, conditions, and provisions, as are, from time to time, directed by Order in Council: And whereas we consider it desirable that a Parents' Allowance should be paid during the period of the present War to the Parent or Parents of Seamen, Marines or Reservists borne on the books of Your Majesty's Ships: We beg leave humbly -to recommend that Your Majesty may be graciously pleased, by Your Order in Council, to sanction payment of such an Allowance at the rate not exceeding those and under the conditions set forth in the following Schedule: The Lords Commissioners of Your Majesty's Treasury have signified their concurrence in this proposal. Schedule. Parents' Allowance. To take effect from the 3rd day of October, 1918:
To take effect from the 7th day of November, 1918:
For the purpose of this Allowance `Parent ' may be taken to include the Grand-parent or other person who has been in the place of a Parent to a Seaman, Marine or Reservist, and has wholly or mainly supported him for not less than one year before his entry into His Majesty's Service. His Majesty, having taken the said Memorial into consideration, was pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, to approve of what is therein proposed. And the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty are to give the necessary directions herein accordingly. © Crown Copyright ^ back to top ^ |