AI-assisted research summary: The Admiralty may, if the pensioner applies and the Treasury approves the terms, commute an Admiralty pension by paying a lump sum. It may also, while a person with a forfeited Admiralty pension is imprisoned, pay or apply part of any restored pension for that person’s wife, civil partner, children, or other dependents.
Admiralty Pensions Act 1921 An Act to make further provision with respect to Admiralty Pensions, and with respect to Pensions, Grants, or Allowances payable under the Injuries in War (Compensation) Acts, and the Government War Obligations Acts. The Admiralty may on the application of the pensioner, in their discretion and on such terms and subject to such conditions as with the approval of the Treasury they may prescribe, commute, by the payment of a capital sum of money, any Admiralty pension payable to a seaman or marine as defined for the purposes of the Naval and Marine Pay and Pensions Act, 1865. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . During such time as any person whose Admiralty pension has been forfeited, whether under the Forfeiture Act, 1870, or otherwise, is undergoing imprisonment, the Admiralty may in their discretion pay or apply any part of the pension which may be restored, under the foregoing provision or otherwise, to or for the benefit of the wife,civil partner, children, or other dependents of that person. In this Act the expression “Admiralty pension” means any pension awarded and administered by the Admiralty in pursuance of any Order in Council obtained under the Naval and Marine Pay and Pensions Act, 1865, or under the Greenwich Hospital Acts, 1865 to 1898, and, in relation to officers, retired pay. This Act may be cited as the Admiralty Pensions Act, 1921. Act excluded by S.I. 1961/294 (1961 I, p. 491) Functions of Admiralty under this Act now exercisable by a Secretary of State: Defence (Transfer of Functions) Act 1964 (c. 15), s. 1(2) Functions of Treasury under this Act now exercisable by Minister for the Civil Service: S.I. 1968/1656 Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3 1865 c. 73. S. 1(2) repealed (E.W.) (S.) by Theft Act 1968 (c. 60), s. 33(3), Sch. 3 Pt. I and (N.I.) by Theft Act (Northern Ireland) 1969 (c. 16), s. 31(2), Sch. 3 Pt. I S. 2(1) repealed by Criminal Justice Act 1948 (c. 58), s. 83, Sch. 10 Pt. I and Statute Law Revision Act 1953 c. 5 (2 & 3 Eliz. 2) 1870 c. 23. S. 3 repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1950 (c. 6) Words in s. 2(2) inserted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), s. 263(8)(a), Sch. 26 para. 13; S.I. 2005/3175, , Sch. 1 S. 2(3) repealed (21.7.2008) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2008 (c. 12), , Sch. 1 Pt. 1 Group 4