http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/6-7/39/section/2Pensions Appeal Tribunals Act 1943An Act to provide for the bringing of appeals against the rejection by the Minister of Pensions on certain grounds of claims in respect of incapacity for work, disablement or death arising out of the war and against certain other decisions of the Minister of Pensions affecting awards in respect of such claims; to give a statutory right to sums payable under such awards; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2024-04-02Expert Participation2022-11-22 Pensions Appeal Tribunals Act 1943s. 6(2ZA) (2ZB)Constitutional Reform Act 2005Sch. 4 para. 364(3)Sch. 4 para. 361s. 148(1)art. 2(a)Sch. 1 para. 11(cc)Pensions Appeal Tribunals Act 1943s. 6(5)Constitutional Reform Act 2005Sch. 4 para. 364(4)Sch. 4 para. 361s. 148(1)art. 2(a)Sch. 1 para. 11(cc) 21Where any claim in respect of the disablement or death of any person made under any scheme made under section three, section four or section five of the Pensions (Navy, Army, Air Force and Mercantile Marine) Act 1939, as amended by the Pensions (Mercantile Marine) Act 1942, is rejected by the Minister on either or both of the following grounds, namely—athat the disablement or death of the said person is not directly attributable to a war injury, war risk injury or detention;bthat the case is not one in which—ithe said person is to be treated for the purpose of the said section three as having sustained the injury or suffered the detention by reason of his service as a mariner in a British ship; oriithe said person is to be treated for the purpose of the said section four as having sustained the injury or suffered the detention by reason of his service; oriiithe injury was sustained in the circumstances specified in a scheme made under the said section five or the detention was caused by reason of his service in a ship forming part of His Majesty’s navy;the Minister shall notify the claimant of his decision, specifying the ground or grounds of the rejection, and thereupon an appeal shall lie to the appropriate tribunal on the issue whether the claim was rightly rejected on that ground or those grounds.2Where the Minister rejects any such claim as aforesaid on one of the grounds specified in the last foregoing subsection and an appeal is brought from his decision,—athe Minister may notify the appellant before the hearing of the appeal that he also rejects the said claim on the other ground so specified, and thereupon the appropriate tribunal shall treat the appeal as an appeal on the issue whether the claim was rightly rejected on both the said grounds;bunless the Minister notifies the appellant as aforesaid, he shall not be entitled, if the appeal is allowed, subsequently to reject the said claim on the said other ground.Ss. 2–3 amended by S.I. 1980/1082, arts. 3, 51939 c. 83. 1942 c. 26. Words in s. 2(1)(2) substituted (3.11.2008) by The Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2833), art. 9(1), Sch. 3 para. 6