The War Pensions (Naval Auxiliary Personnel) Scheme 1964

Persons to whom the Scheme applies

4.—(1) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (3) of this Article, this Scheme applies to any naval auxiliary member whose disablement or death is directly attributable to a qualifying injury or to detention.

(2) This Scheme applies also, subject to the provisions of paragraph (3) of this Article, to any person employed or engaged in a ship forming part of His Majesty's Navy as an enlisted man of the Royal Navy in whose case it was provided on his enlistment that, in the event of his disablement or death being directly attributable to a war injury, war risk injury or detention, compensation would be payable in accordance with the provisions of the Scheme for the time being in force applying the provisions of the Naval Order to naval auxiliary personnel, and, accordingly, any such person shall be treated for the purposes of this Scheme as if he were a naval auxiliary member, the rank in which he was serving in the Royal Navy being treated as his equivalent naval rank and his service after 2nd September 1939 as a man of the Royal Navy being treated as service as a naval auxiliary member.

(3) This Scheme does not apply to any person to whom any Scheme made under section 5(2) of the Act applies.