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WAR PENSIONS (ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS) ACT 1918 - SECT 9

Duty of Minister to provide for care of neglected children of men dead or on service.

9.(1) It shall be the duty of the Minister to make provision for the care of
any children (including illegitimate children), being the children of officers
or men in the naval, military, or air service of His Majesty who have died
from causes arising out of their service during the present war or who are on
active service, who by reason of their mothers being dead or for any other
reason are suffering from neglect or want of proper care, and the Minister may
out of any funds at his disposal for the purpose make grants for the purpose
of making such provision as aforesaid.

(2) The Minister may, subject to such conditions as he thinks fit, provide for
the performance by the special grants committee ... of his duty under this
section.

(3) Any question which may arise with respect to the amount of any grant to be
made under this section shall, if the Minister so directs, be referred to and
determined by the special grants committee.

Subs.(4) spent

(5) For the purposes of this section a child means any child to, or in respect
of, whom a pension, allowance, or separation allowance is payable.

(6) The Minister ... shall in any case in which it is proposed in pursuance of
the provisions of this section to place any child in any institution or under
the care of any person endeavour to ascertain the religious denomination to
which the child belongs, and no child shall be placed in an institution or
under the care of a person not belonging to the same religious denomination as
the child unless the persons having the management of the institution or the
person under whose care the child is to be placed, as the case may be, give or
gives such undertaking as seems to the Minister ... sufficient that the child
shall be brought up in accordance with its own religious persuasion.

Where such an undertaking as aforesaid given by the persons having the
management of any institution or by any person is not observed the Minister
... shall as soon as may be remove the child from the institution or from the
care of that person.

Ss.1016 rep. by SLR 1927; SLR 1953

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