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LORDS AMENDMENTs

TO THE

ARMED FORCES (PENSIONS AND COMPENSATION) BILL

[The page and line references are to HL Bill 70, the bill as first printed for the Lords.]

Clause 1

1

Page 1, line 14, at end insert—

 

“( )   

Any scheme established under subsection (2) must provide that there shall

 

be no onus on any claimant under the scheme to prove the fulfilment of any

 

conditions for a claim thereunder and that the benefit of any reasonable

 

doubt shall be given to the claimant.”

After Clause 6

2

Insert the following new Clause—

 

        

“Post-retirement marriages

 

As of 6th April 2005 widows, widowers and surviving registered

 

unmarried partners of all service personnel shall receive a full widows’

 

forces family pension based on their spouses’ or partners’ length of service

 

and final salary, provided that their marriage took place before the service

 

personnel’s 60th birthday.”

Clause 7

3

Page 3, line 27, at end insert—

 

“( )   

In regulation 2 of the Pensions Appeal Tribunals (Late Appeals)

 

Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/1032) (interpretation), the words “to which

 

section 8(1) of the Act applies” in the definition of “appeal” are omitted.

 

   

  This amendment is deemed always to have had effect.”

Clause 10

4

Page 4, line 8, after “Act” insert “(other than an order under section 8)”

 
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