- (a) A terminal grant is payable to a Service man who gives Colour service after 31st August, 1950, and who when he is discharged, is entitled to a Service pension, to qualify for which he must normally have rendered at least 22 years' reckonable service.
- (b) In certain special cases, 21 years' continuous reckonable service may be a qualification.
- (c) Service men who, having entered into engagements to complete 21 or 22 years' service or re-enlisted to complete 22 years'service, are invalided with at least 12 years' reckonable service, may qualify for Service pension and hence for terminal grant.
- (d) The rates of terminal grants, where it is granted in respect of 22 years' reckonable service, and in the cases where (as explained at (b) above) 21 years' continuous reckonable
§ service is a qualification for the grant, are as follows:—
| £ | |
| Private (and equivalent rank in the other Services) | 100 |
| Corporal (and equivalent rank in the other Services) | 150 |
| Sergeant (and equivalent rank in the other Services) | 200 |
| Staff Sergeant (and equivalent rank in the other Services) | 250 |
| Warrant officer, Class II (and equivalent rank in the other Services) | 275 |
| Warrant officer, Class I (and equivalent rank in the other Services) | 300 |
§ An invalided Service man who (see (c) above) is entitled to the grant by virtue of not less than 12 years' reckonable service receives a proportion of the rate for 22 years'service, according to the length of his reckonable service, subject to a minimum grant of £100.
§ Full details were given in Appendix II of Cmd. 8323 of 1951.
§ SERVICE GRATUITIES
§ These are set out in Command Paper 6715 of 1945, paragraphs 34 and 53.