§ 68. Major Beamishasked the Minister of Pensions whether his regulations provide that a Service man or woman who develops a lasting illness or receives an injury resulting in some permanent disability while on demobilisation leave shall be pensionable in the same way as if such illness developed or injury was received on some previous period of leave during their service.
§ The Minister of Pensions (Mr. Wilfred Paling)Command Paper 6459 of July, 1943, laid down that accidents sustained whilst actually on leave could not be regarded as attributable to service, and this principle applies equally to demobilisation leave. As regards illnesses, the position is that if the illness was attributable to, or aggravated by, war service it would be pensionable, but not otherwise.