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Pensions, &c. to be paid to guardians in repayment of relief.
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56. When any relief shall have been given to any person entitled to or in receipt of any pension, superannuation, or other allowance in respect of his service in the navy, royal marines, army, or ordnance, or to his wife, or to any child whom he may be liable to maintain, it shall be lawful for the guardians, by minute, stating the particulars of the relief so given and the person to whom given, to require that the next payment which shall become due of such pension or allowance shall be made to such guardians; and such guardians shall transmit a copy of such minute, attested by their clerk, at least one month before such payment shall become due, addressed to her Majesty’s paymaster general, provided the pension or other allowance shall have been granted for service in the navy or marines, or to the commissioners of Chelsea Hospital, provided the pension or other allowance shall have been granted for service in the army or ordnance, with the words “Chelsea pensioner” or “Greenwich pensioner” (as the case may be) written thereon; which said paymaster general shall thereupon, and upon sufficient proof being given to the satisfaction of the paymaster general or commissioners of Chelsea Hospital respectively that the person whose pension or other allowance shall be so required to be paid shall be living when the same shall become payable, and would have been otherwise entitled to receive the same, cause payment to be made to such guardians; and the said guardians so receiving any pension or allowance shall retain and apply so much thereof as will repay the cost of relief actually given as aforesaid for the use and indemnity of the union, and shall pay the surplus, if any, to the pensioner or person entitled thereto; and upon the receipt of any such minute as aforesaid the payment of the pension or other allowance mentioned therein shall be suspended until sufficient proof shall have been given to entitle the guardians named in such minute to receive the money thereby required to be paid to them.
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