Catalogue description Local Government Board. Grant of old age pensions to lunatics and other persons...

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Details of T 1/12057/20646
Reference: T 1/12057/20646
Description:

Local Government Board. Grant of old age pensions to lunatics and other persons incapable of making claims: opinion of the Law Officers of the Crown. (Case of Miss M.A. Joy, deaf, dumb, and blind).

[The Law Officers upheld the previous interpretation of the department that 'a person is not entitled to an old age pension unless he possesses at least sufficient intellectual capacity to understand that he is making a claim to a pension or to authorise a claim on his behalf'].

Attached file(s): 14972/17; 1987/17; 24915/16; 18176/16; 16750/16

Note: File classification: category A
Date: 1917
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Top file: 20646/17
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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