47.—(1) The provisions of this article, other than paragraph (2), are subject to the provisions of article 48.
(2) Payment of a pension may be made provisionally or upon any other basis.
(3) Subject to paragraph (4), pension awarded in terms of a weekly amount may be paid weekly in advance and pension not awarded in such terms may be paid quarterly or monthly in arrears.
(4) The Secretary of State may in any particular case or class of case determine that pension shall be paid in advance or in arrears or partly in advance and partly in arrears, and for a period different from that specified in paragraph (3).
(5) Pension shall be paid by such means as appears to the Secretary of State to be appropriate in the circumstances of the case or class of case.
(6) The Secretary of State may require such declaration from a person to whom payment of a pension or gratuity is to be made as he may from time to time consider necessary.
(7) Where, by reason of any provision in any instrument which amends a provision of this Order—
(a)a change falls to be made in the rate of any pension which, by virtue of the preceding provisions of this article, is payable weekly; and
(b)the date on which that change would, but for this paragraph, fall to be made (“the prescribed date”) is not the day of the week on which payment of pension is normally made (“the weekly pay day”)
that change shall have effect only as from the first weekly pay day immediately following the prescribed date.