Number 7 of 1949.

DEFENCE FORCES (PENSIONS) (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1949.

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Number 7 of 1949.

DEFENCE FORCES (PENSIONS) (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1949.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:—

1. —In this Act, the expression “the Principal Act” means the Defence Forces (Pensions) Act, 1932 (No. 26 of 1932).

2. —The definition, in section 1 of the Principal Act, of the expression “the National Army” is hereby amended by the insertion, after the words “Army Nursing Service”, of the words “or the Chaplaincy Service”.

3. —Section 2 of the Principal Act is hereby amended—

(a) by the insertion in subsection (1), after paragraph (b), of the following paragraph:

“(bb) pensions and gratuities for members of the Chaplaincy Service to whom such scheme applies, and”,

(b) by the addition at the end of subsection (2) of the follow-words:

“and members of the Chaplaincy Service,”

(c) by the addition at the end of subsection (3) of the following words:

“or, in the case of a member of the Chaplaincy Service, to his service as such member or as a chaplain with the National Army.”

4. —(1) This Act may be cited as the Defence Forces (Pensions) (Amendment) Act, 1949.

(2) The Defence Forces (Pensions) Acts, 1932 and 1938, and this Act may be cited together as the Defence Forces (Pensions) Acts, 1932 to 1949, and shall be construed as one.