WAR PENSIONS (ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS) ACT 1919

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WAR PENSIONS (ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS) ACT 1919 - SECT 10

Short title.

10. This Act may be cited as the
War Pensions (Administrative Provisions) Act, 1919, and the War Pensions Acts,
1915 to 1918, and this Act may be cited together as the War Pensions Acts,
1915 to 1919.1. Pensions appeal tribunals shall be constituted for such parts
of, or places in, the United Kingdom as the Lord Chancellor after consultation
with the Minister of Pensions, may determine.

2. The members of each tribunal shall be appointed by the Lord Chancellor, and
shall consist of

(i)one legal representative, being a barrister or solicitor, in either case of
not less than seven years' standing; and

[(ii)a person who has served in Her Majesty's Forces]; and

(iii)a duly qualified medical practitioner.

3. In the case of a casual vacancy on a pensions appeal tribunal the
Lord Chancellor may appoint a similarly qualified person to fill the vacancy.

4. The legal representative shall be the chairman of each tribunal.

5. The number of members of a tribunal to hear any particular case shall be
three. Where the claim is that of an officer the second member shall be an
officer, and where the claim to be heard is that of a man, the second member
shall be a man.

6. There shall be paid to the members of pensions appeal tribunals such
remuneration as the Treasury may determine, and any such remuneration and any
expenses which may be incurred by a tribunal up to such amount as is
sanctioned by the Treasury shall be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament.

7. No court fees shall be charged on the hearing of any case before a pensions
appeal tribunal.

8. Subject as aforesaid, the Lord Chancellor may make regulations with respect
to the procedure of pensions appeal tribunals, and may by such regulations
provide for the transfer to such tribunals of claims pending before a Ministry
Appeal Tribunal at the first day of November nineteen hundred and nineteen,
the summoning of expert and other witnesses, the representation of the
claimants, and the Ministry at the hearing of any appeal, the arrangements for
the sittings of the tribunals (including the sitting of more than one tribunal
in the same area) the particular cases which any tribunal shall hear, and such
other matters as may be required for the due and speedy determination of
appeals.

9. "Lord Chancellor" shall mean, in the application of this schedule to ...
Ireland, the Lord Chancellor of Ireland.

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WAR PENSIONS (ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS) ACT 1919 - SECT 10