S.L. 111.1 Art. 23Provision as to members of the armed forces.

(1) When a person in respect of whom an award may be made under this Scheme was, at the date on which he sustained the injury in respect of which the award may be made, a member of any of the armed forces of the Government of the United Kingdom, or a person employed in the nursing service or other auxiliary service of any of those forces, and was required to give whole time service as such a member or as a person so employed, no pension or allowance under this Scheme in respect of that injury shall be paid -

(a) when the injury is causing him serious and prolonged disablement, in respect of any period during which he continues to be such a member or to be so employed, or

(b) when his death is the direct result of the injury, in respect of any period during which any war service allowances are paid:

Provided that where the aggregate amount of any pension and allowances in respect of dependent minors which might, but for the foregoing provisions of this article, have been paid under this Scheme in respect of the period mentioned in paragraph (b) of this article are in excess of the aggregate amount of those war service allowances, an amount equal to that excess may be paid.

(2) In this article the expression "war service allowances", in relation to a deceased person, means any pension, allowance, grant or other payment made out of moneys provided by the Government of the United Kingdom or by the Government of Malta at weekly or other periodical intervals to any person after the death of the deceased person in continuation of any payments made during the lifetime of the deceased person in respect of his service in any of the armed forces of the Government of the United Kingdom or in the nursing service or other auxiliary service of any of those forces.