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An Act to make better provision respecting Greenwich Hospital, and the application of the revenues thereof.
[2nd August 1869]
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Functions of Admiralty under this Act now exercisable by a Secretary of State: Defence (Tranfer of Functions) Act 1964 (c. 15), s. 1(2)
C2Words of enactment and certain other words repealed by Statute Law Revision (No. 2) Act 1893 (c. 54)
C3Act amended (women's services) by Armed Forces Act 1981 (c. 55, SIF 7:1), s. 20, Sch. 3 para. 1
This Act may be cited as The Greenwich Hospital Act, 1869; . . . F1
Textual Amendments
F1Words repealed by Statute Law Revision (No. 2) Act 1893 (c. 54)
The Admiralty may, under regulations to be from time to time made by them, admit temporarily or permanently to the benefits of Greenwich Hospital non-commissioned officers and men of the royal navy and marines who, although not in receipt of naval pensions, have been, before or after the passing of this Act, discharged as invalided for disease or wounds contracted or received in or by the service of the Crown, or are infirm and helpless.
The Admiralty may, under regulations to be from time to time made by them, send any non-commissioned officers or men admitted to the benefits of Greenwich Hospital to a . . . F3 hospital or infirmary, to be there maintained at the expense of Greenwich Hospital.
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F3Words repealed by Greenwich Hospital Act 1898 (c. 24), s. 3
The Admiralty may, under regulations to be from time to time made by them appoint to non-commissioned officers and men admitted to the benefits of Greenwich Hospital, in lieu of maintaining them in or at the expense of Greenwich Hospital, such special Greenwich Hospital pensions as to the Admiralty shall seem fit, according to the circumstances of each case, . . . F4
Textual Amendments
F4Words repealed by Greenwich Hospital Act 1947 (c. 5), s. 1(1)(a), Sch. 2
Regulations made by the Admiralty under this Act shall not have effect unless and until they are approved by Her Majesty in Council.
The Admiralty may from time to time permit Greenwich Hospital or any part thereof, with the appurtenances, to be occupied and used temporarily for the purposes of the naval service or of any department of Her Majesty’s Government, or for the benefit of persons engaged or who have been engaged in seafaring pursuits, with or without requiring a rent, and on such terms respecting repairs and other matters as the Admiralty think fit; but so that the whole of the buildings of the hospital and their appurtenances shall be at all times available for the purposes to which the same would have been applicable if this section had not been enacted.
Her Majesty’s Paymaster General shall continue to keep in his books the separate account, called the Greenwich Hospital income account, opened by him under the M1Greenwich Hospital Act, 1865.
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Textual Amendments
The naval pensions of such non-commissioned officers and men as are for the time being maintained in or at the expense of Greenwich Hospital shall not be paid to them individually, but so much of the money annually provided and appropriated by Parliament for naval pensions as would be applicable to the payment of the naval pensions of those officers and men shall be paid into the Bank of England under the direction of the Admiralty to the cash account of Her Majesty’s Paymaster General, who shall carry the same to the Greenwich Hospital income account.
Textual Amendments
Textual Amendments
F9S. 14 repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1950 (c. 6)
Textual Amendments
F10S. 15 repealed by S.I. 1964/488
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