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Number 23 of 1953.

ARMY PENSIONS ACT, 1953.

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

PRELIMINARY AND GENERAL.

Section
1.	Short title and collective citation.
2.	Interpretation.

PART II.

ALLOWANCES TO RELATIVES OF DECEASED PERSONS WITH PRE-TRUCE SERVICE.

3.	Application of this Part.
4.	Grant of annual allowances to certain persons.
5.	Direction as to relative to whom allowance is to be paid.
6.	Time limit for making applications under this Part.
7.	Commencement of allowances under this Part.
8.	Provision against double allowance.
9.	Reference of applications to Military Service Registration Board.
10.	Reference of applications to Army Pensions Board.
11.	Application of certain sections of Acts of 1923 and 1927.

PART III.

INCREASES OF PENSIONS AND ALLOWANCES UNDER THE ACTS.

12.	Appropriate sum.
13.	Increase of allowance to each sister of a Signatory of the Proclamation published on Easter Monday, 1916.
14.	Increase of wound pensions under section 1 of the Act of 1923.
15.	Increase of wound pensions under section 3 of the Act of 1923.
16.	Increase of extra pensions under sections 2 and 3 of the Act of 1923.
17.	Amendment of Second Schedule to the Act of 1923.
18.	Amendment of Third Schedule to the Act of 1923.
19.	Increase of disability pensions under section 9 of the Act of 1927.
20.	Increase of disability pensions under section 10 of the Act of 1927.
21.	Increase of wound pensions under section 11 of the Act of 1927.
22.	Increase of certain wound pensions under section 12 of the Act of 1927.
23.	Increase of disability pensions under section 13 of the Act of 1927.
24.	Increase of married pensions under sections 9 to 13 of the Act of 1927 and section 5 of the Act of 1946.
25.	Increase of certain allowance under subsection (2) of section 15 of the Act of 1927.
26.	Amendment of Sixth Schedule to the Act of 1927.
27.	Amendment of Seventh Schedule to the Act of 1927.
28.	Increase of wound, disability and married pensions under section 10 of the Act of 1932.
29.	Amendment of Second Schedule to the Act of 1932.
30.	Increase of pensions under section 26 of the Act of 1937.
31.	Increase of pensions under sections 28 and 29 of the Act of 1937.
32.	Increase of dependants' allowances under section 37 of the Act of 1937.
33.	Increase of pensions under section 6 of the Act of 1941.
34.	Increase of pensions under section 4 of the Act of 1943.
35.	Increase of pensions under section 6 of the Act of 1943.
36.	Increase of pensions under section 12 of the Act of 1946.
37.	Restrictions on increase of pension.
38.	Commencement of this Part.

PART IV.

AMENDMENT OF THE ACTS IN RELATION TO MARRIED PENSIONS AND WIDOWS' ALLOWANCES.

39.	Amendment of the Acts in relation to married pensions.
40.	Amendment of the Acts in relation to widows' allowances.

PART V.

AMENDMENT OF THE ACTS IN RELATION TO SPECIAL ALLOWANCES.

41.	Amendment of section 7 of the Act of 1943.
42.	Review of special allowances.
43.	Obligation to notify the Minister of certain occurrences.
44.	Gratuities to relatives of certain deceased persons.

PART VI.

MISCELLANEOUS.

45.	Allowances to certain children of Signatories to the Proclamation published on Easter Monday, 1916.
46.	Amendment of section 9 of the Act of 1923.
47.	Amendment of section 10 of the Act of 1927.
48.	Amendment of sections 10 and 12 of the Act of 1927.
49.	Finality of award under section 12 of the Act of 1927.
50.	Time limit for making certain applications under sections 14 and 15 of the Act of 1927.
51.	Amendment of section 20 of the Act of 1932.
52.	Power to grant further allowances under Part VII of the Act of 1937.
53.	Right of certain persons to re-apply under Part VII of the Act of 1937.
54.	Amendment of section 40 of the Act of 1937.
55.	Amendment of section 5 of the Act of 1946.
56.	Restriction of section 6 of the Act of 1946.
57.	Declaration as to pension under section 12 of the Act of 1946.
58.	Validation of pension.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

THIRD SCHEDULE.

Increased Rates of Pensions granted to Officers under sections 10 and 12 of the Act of 1927.

FOURTH SCHEDULE.

FIFTH SCHEDULE.

Increase of Wound and Disability Pensions granted under section 10 of the Act of 1932.

SIXTH SCHEDULE.

Revised Rates of Pensions under Part VI of the Act of 1937.

Acts Referred to
Army Pensions Act, 1923	No. 26 of 1923
Army Pensions Act, 1927	No. 12 of 1927
Army Pensions Act, 1932	No. 24 of 1932
Army Pensions Act, 1937	No. 15 of 1937
Army Pensions Act, 1941	No. 2 of 1941
Army Pensions Act, 1943	No. 14 of 1943
Army Pensions Act, 1946	No. 3 of 1946
Army Pensions Act, 1949	No. 19 of 1949
Army Pensions (Increase) Act, 1949	No. 28 of 1949
Military Service Pensions Act, 1924	No. 48 of 1924
Military Service Pensions Act, 1934	No. 43 of 1934

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Number 23 of 1953.

ARMY PENSIONS ACT, 1953.

AN ACT TO AMEND AND EXTEND THE ARMY PENSIONS ACTS, 1923 TO 1949. [5th August, 1953.]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:—

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