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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 8, 1939.
Time limit on claims.
Provisions relating to ranks of mariners and mem-
bers of the pilotage or light yessel services.
(2) If an award has been made under this Part of this Scheme in respect of the disablement of a mariner or member of the pilotage or light vessel services, and that mariner or member is subsequently disabled, any further award to that mariner or member which may be made under this Part of this Scheme, may be made in lieu of the existing award.
(3) Where a mariner or a member of the pilotage or light vessel services who has suffered disablement directly attribut- able to a war injury or to his detention is eligible for a pension payable out of public funds (otherwise than under this Scheme) in respect of some other disablement previously suffered by him, his degree of disablement shall not be certified for the purposes of the award of a pension under this Scheme at a degree which, together with the degree of dis- ablement at which his disability was, or could have been, assessed for the purposes of the said pension payable to him out of public funds, amounts to a degree higher than one hundred per cent.
6.--(1) A pension or gratuity in respect of the disable- ment of any mariner or member of the pilotage or light vessel services shall not, unless the Minister otherwise directs, be awarded unless a claim to that pension or gratuity is made within a period of seven years from the appropriate date or the end of the war, whichever is the earlier, or within such other period as the Minister may direct or prescribe as the period within which that claim or claims of that class ought to be made.
(2) In this Article, the expression "appropriate date " means, in a case where the disablement of the mariner or member of the pilotage or light vessel services is directly attributable to a war injury sustained by him, the date on which he sustained that war injury, and in a case where the disablement of a mariner or member of the pilotage or light vessel services is directly attributable to his detention, the date on which the period of detention of that mariner or member ended.
7.-(1) For the purposes of the application of the pro- visions of the Naval Order to mariners and members of the pilotage or light vessel services of the male sex, such mariners and members shall be treated as holding such equivalent naval ranks as are provided—
(a) in the case of mariners, by the provisions of the First Schedule to this Scheme,
(b) in the case of members of the pilotage service, by the provisions of the Second Schedule to this Scheme, and
(c) in the case of members of the light vessel service, by the provisions of the Third Schedule to this Scheme.
(2) A mariner or member of the pilotage or light vessel services of the male sex, in whose case no equivalent naval rank is provided by the provisions of the said Schedule, or in whose case the equivalent naval rank so provided is, in the opinion of the Minister, too low or too high having regard to the position and duties of that mariner or member and the conditions of his employment or engagement, shall be treated as holding on the material date such equivalent naval rank as