1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Naval, Military and Air Forces etc. (Disablement and Death) Service Pensions Amendment Order 1991 and shall come into force on the 8th April 1991.
(2) In this Order, the expression “the principal Order” means the Naval, Military and Air Forces etc. (Disablement and Death) Service Pensions Order 1983.
2. In article 18 of the principal Order (unemployability allowances) in paragraph (2) for the amount “£1,820” there shall be substituted the amount “£2,028”.
3.—(1) In Schedule 1 to the principal Order (rates of pension and other grants payable in respect of disablement)–
(a)for Tables 1 and 3 of Part II there shall respectively be substituted the Tables set out in Schedules 1 and 2 to this Order;
(b)for Tables 1 and 2 of Part III there shall respectively be substituted the Tables set out in Schedules 3 and 4 to this Order;
(c)for Part IV there shall be substituted the Part set out in Schedule 5 to this Order.
(2) In Schedule 2 to the principal Order (rates of pension and other grants payable in respect of death)–
(a)for Table 1A of Part II there shall be substituted the Table set out in Schedule 6 to this Order;
(b)for the amount “£3,178” in the second column of Table 1B of Part II there shall be substituted the amount “£3,525”;
(c)for the amounts “£60.95” and “£14.07” in the second and third columns of Table 3 of Part II there shall respectively be substituted the amounts “£67.60” and “£15.60”;
(d)for Table 5 of Part II there shall be substituted the Table set out in Schedule 7 to this Order;
(e)for Part III there shall be substituted the Part set out in Schedule 8 to this Order.
4. For sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (1) of article 26A(1)there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph–
“(a)disablement as a result of the amputation of both legs, at levels which are either through or above the ankle; or”
G. I. de Deney
Clerk of the Privy Council