The Army and Air Force (Women's Service) (Adaptation of Enactments) Order 1949

PART II OTHER ENACTMENTS

The Pensions and Yeomanry Pay Act, 1884 (47 & 48 Vict. c. 55)

In section four, after the word “widow” there shall be inserted the word “widower”.

The Regimental Debts Act, 1893 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 5)

In section twenty-four in paragraph (a) after the word “wife” there shall be inserted the words “or husband”.

The Stamp Act, 1891 (54 & 55 Vict. c. 39)

In the First Schedule, after the word “widow” in the first of the exemptions specified under the description “BOND on obtaining letters of administration in England or Ireland, or a confirmation of testament in Scotland”, there shall be inserted the word “widower”.

Finance Act, 1924 (14 & 15 Geo. 5, c. 21)

In section thirty-eight, at the end of subsection (1) there shall be inserted the following words:—

“Provided that the relief to be given under this subsection in the case of a married woman who is a member of any force raised under the Army and Air Force (Women's Service) Act, 1948, and whose husband survives her shall be calculated as if in the enactments referred to in the foregoing provisions of this subsection any reference to a widow included a reference to a surviving husband.”

The Disabled Persons (Employment) Act, 1944 (7 & 8 Geo. 6, c. 10)

In section sixteen at the end of paragraph (b) there shall be added the words “or in any force raised and maintained under the Army and Air Force (Women's Service) Act, 1948”

The Reinstatement in Civil Employment Act, 1944 (7 & 8 Geo. 6, c. 15)

The Reinstatement in Civil Employment Act, 1944, as amended by section fifty-nine of the National Service Act, 1948, shall apply to women who were on the eighteenth day of July, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, performing whole-time service in any of the capacities mentioned in the First Schedule to the Reinstatement in Civil Employment Act, 1944, and who have thereafter performed whole-time service as a member of any force raised and maintained under the Army and Air Force (Women's Service) Act, 1948, as if the capacity of a member of a force so raised and maintained were one of the capacities mentioned in the said First Schedule.