WAR PAY

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3122, 28 June 1917, Page 4

WAR PAY

FOR MEDICALLY UNFIT MEN. Regulations have been gazetted dealing with the pay of soldiers discharged aa medically unfit from the training camps. Tho principal clauses read as under:— Any soldier who, whether before or ■ after the making of these, regulations, • has been reported by a medical board as unfit for active service beyond the seas, and has in consequence been discharged on leave of absence without pay from a training camp of the New Zealand" Ex-, peditionary Forces, may, while still lon' leave Without pay, and undischarged from the Expeditionary Forces, make ap- ' plication to the War Pensions Board for ' military pay under theso Tegulations. ' The War Pensions Board shall hear and consider such application, and shall report thereon to the Minister of Defence, making such recommendation aa the board thinks fit as to grant of mili- ' tary pay to the applicant, and as to the aureunt, duration, and conditions of ' such pay (if any). When tho applicant has been discharg* . ed from camp because of disablement due to injuries received or disease contracted by him in his employment as a member of tho Expeditionary Force, the War ' Pensions .Board shall, in making any such, -recommendation, act on the same principles, so far as may be, as if the application was an application for a pension under the War Pensions Act for a discharged soldier and his dependants. In all other cases the War Pension's Board in making such recommendation shall recomemnd such pay (if any) as may be thought just and adequate, having regard to any loss whicli the appli- ' cant may have suffered by reason of his service in camp and Iris discharge therefrom, but tho rate of pay so recommended shall in no case exceed the rate of pay received by the applicant while in camp.

_In any case in which' any snch application has been reported upon by the War Pensions Board, the board may at any time, and'from time to time thereafter, either of its own motion or on the application of the applicant or of the Minister of Defence, reconsider the matter, and may vary or cancel its former reconi. .mendation.

When any recommendation for military pay has been so made by the War Vea* Slos Board, the Minister of Defence may take such action in pursuance thereof as he thinks fit.

Nothing in these regulations shall be so construed as in any manner to take away or restrict the "authority of- the Minister of Defence in any matters relative to the pay or allowances of members of the Expeditionary Forces.