Statutory Instruments
2005 No. 3185
PENSIONS
The Naval Medical Compassionate Fund (Amendment) Order 2005
Made
15th November 2005
Coming into force
5th December 2005
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 15th day of November 2005
Present,
The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council
WHEREAS Her Majesty deems it expedient to amend the Order in Council approving Standing Orders and Regulations for the Government of the Naval Medical Compassionate Fund (1915)( 1 ) by Order in Council in pursuance of section 1 of the Naval Medical Compassionate Fund Act 1915( 2 ).
NOW, THEREFORE, Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 1 of the Naval Medical Compassionate Fund Act 1915, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—
Citation and commencement and interpretation
1. —(1) This Order may be cited as the Naval Medical Compassionate Fund (Amendment) Order 2005 and shall come into force on 5th December 2005.
(2) In this Order “the principal Order” means the Order in Council approving Standing Orders and Regulations for the Government of the Naval Medical Compassionate Fund (1915), and, except where the context otherwise requires, a reference to a numbered article is to the article in the principal Order which bears that number.
Amendment to Article 9 of the principal Order
2. For “Widowers and Widows” (in each place) substitute “surviving spouse or surviving civil partner”.
A.K. Galloway
Clerk of the Privy Council
S.R. & O. 1915/769 ; amended by S.R. & O. 1919/884 ; S.I. 1988/1294 ; S.I. 1991/994 , S.I. 1996/3213 .
1915 c. 28 ; section 1 was amended by S.I. 1964/488 , art 2, Schedule 1, Pt 1; the Armed Forces Act 1966 (c. 45) , section 35(1), Schedule 6, paragraph 1 and by the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33) , section 257, Schedule 26, paragraph 8.