§ MR. VIVIAN (Birkenhead)To ask the President of the Local Government Board whether residence of three months or more out of the United Kingdom prevents an applicant from benefiting under the Pensions Act; and does a three months or more residence in the Isle of Man exclude an applicant from benefiting under the Act.
(Answered by Mr. John Burns.) An applicant for an old-age pension must, under Section 2 of the Old-Age Pensions Act, 1908, satisfy the pension authorities that for at least twenty years up to the date of the receipt of any sum on account of a pension he has had his residence, as defined by regulations under the Act, in the United Kingdom. The regulations provide for temporary absences during the period of twenty years being disregarded if the applicant's home has throughout the absences been in the United Kingdom and the aggregate of the absences since the beginning of the earliest of them does not exceed eight years. Residence in the Isle of Man is not for the purposes of the Act residence within the United Kingdom†.