WAR PENSIONS APPEAL BOARD.

Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 36, 19 November 1920, Page 5

WAR PENSIONS APPEAL BOARD.

GROUNDS FOR RECONSIDERATION. The Finance Bill contains special provisions regarding war pensions. A War Pensions Medical Appeal Board, consisting of three medical. practitioners, is to be set up Appeals are provided for insofar as they consist in : (a) The rejection of any claim for a pension on the ground that the death or disablement oi the member of the forces, in resp,ect of whose death or disablement the claim is made, was not due directly or indirectly to his employment as a member of the forces, 01% in the case of disablement, that the condition of disablement was not aggravated by such employment, and (b) the assessment of a pension granted to any member of the forces insofar as the assessment is based on medical grounds. On any appeal under this section, the board may confirm the decision of the War Pensions Board, or may grant a pension, or may increase or reduce the amount of any pension.