Part III Persons Injured or Contracting Disease, In Discharge of Their Duties
Judicial Pensions Act 1981 (1981 c 20) | Legislation

Part III Persons Injured or Contracting Disease, In Discharge of Their Duties

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(1)     This paragraph applies where an officer to whom this Schedule applies—

(a)     is injured in the actual discharge of his duty by some injury specifically attributable to the nature of his duty which is not wholly or mainly due to, or seriously aggravated by, his own serious and culpable negligence or misconduct, or

(b)     is injured while in an area outside the United Kingdom for the purposes of his employment, and the injury is directly attributable to the existence in or near that area of a state of war, revolution, or serious and widespread internal disturbance, or is the direct result of deliberate acts of the local population or of sporadic political disturbances, and is not wholly or mainly due to, or seriously aggravated by, his own serious and culpable negligence or misconduct, or

(c)     contracts a disease to which he is exposed by the nature of his duty, not being a disease wholly or mainly due to, or seriously aggravated by, his own serious and culpable negligence or misconduct.

(2)     [The Treasury] may grant to the officer, and, if he dies as a direct

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