HC Deb 15 November 1918 vol 110 c3122

(1) Where a man to whom this Section applies, that is to say:

  1. (a) a constable who was serving in either of the said police forces on the first day of September, nineteen hundred and eighteen;
  2. (b) a constable of either of the said police forces who, having been called out as a reservist, or having entered or re-entered, enlisted or re-enlisted in any of His Majesty's naval, military, or air forces for the purposes of the present War, was on the said first day of September serving in any such force;
  3. (c) a constable who, having joined either of the said police forces after the said first day of September, has completed five years' service,
dies, or has, on or after the said first day of September, died, whilst serving in the police force or in any of His Majesty's naval, military, or air forces for the purposes of the present War, or whilst in receipt of a pension from the police authority, or in consequence of any disease or injury on account of which he retired from the police force, the police authority may, if they think fife, grant to his widow (being a woman whom he married before he retired from the police force and in accordance with the Regulations of the force) a pension not exceeding twenty-six pounds a year, or if the constable's annual pay in the police force was more than two hundred and sixty pounds, not exceeding one-tenth of the amount of such pay yearly.

Amendment made: In Sub-section (1), leave out the words "may, if they think fit," and insert instead thereof the word "shall."—[Mr. Shortt.]

Clause, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill.