1. This Order shall come into force on 1st October 1988 and may be cited as the Naval Medical Compassionate Fund (Amendment) Order 1988.
2.—(1) The Order in Council dated 28th July 1915(1), whereby Standing Orders and Regulations for the Constitution and Government of the Naval Medical Compassionate Fund (“the Standing Orders and Regulations”) were approved, shall be amended as follows.
(2) In Article 2 of the Standing Orders and Regulations for the words “Accountant General of the Navy” there shall be substituted the words “Assistant Under Secretary of State (Naval Personnel)”.
(3) For Article 8 of the Standing Orders and Regulations there shall be substituted:
“8.—(1) The Annual Subscription shall be £1.05 or such other sum as the Trustees may decide payable on the 1st day of January each year to the Honorary Treasurer of the Fund.
(2) A person eligible to become or continue as a Subscriber to the Fund may pay to the Honorary Treasurer of the Fund a Life Subscription calculated in accordance with the provisions of the Schedule to these Standing Orders and Regulations.
(3) Where a person pays a Life Subscription in accordance with paragraph (2) above, he shall for the remainder of his life be deemed to be a Subscriber to the Fund.”.
(4) For paragraph (b) of Article 9 of the Standing Orders and Regulations there shall be substituted:
“(b)The Orphans and Widows of such Persons as may hereafter become Subscribers to the Fund provided that:
(i)before their death they had paid a Life Subscription, or
(ii)at the date of their death their Annual Subscription was not more than 9 months in arrear.”.
(5) The provisions set out in the Schedule to this Order shall have effect as a Schedule to the Standing Orders and Regulations.
G.I. de Deney
Clerk of the Privy Council