
1 
This Scheme may be cited as the War Pensions (Naval Auxiliary Personnel)
Scheme 1964, and shall come into operation on 1st January 1965.
2 
In this Scheme, unless the context otherwise requires—
(1) “the Act”
means the Pensions (Navy, Army, Air Force
and Mercantile Marine) Act 1939, as amended
by the Pensions (Mercantile Marine) Act
1942:
(2) “detention”,
in relation to a naval auxiliary member, means detention
which—
(a) is consequent
on the capture, seizure, arrest or other restraint of the naval auxiliary
member or of his ship affected by reason of the existence of a state of war:
and
(b) is suffered
by reason of his service:
(3) “equivalent naval rank”
, in relation to a naval auxiliary member, means the rank which the naval auxiliary member is, by virtue of Article 5 of this Scheme, to be
treated as holding for the purposes of this Scheme:
(4) “material date”,
in relation to any claim to an award under this Scheme, means the date of the qualifying injury, or of the commencement of the
detention, on which the claim to the award is based:
(5) “the Minister”
means the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance
:
(6) “naval auxiliary member”
 means a person who—
(a) was subject to the Naval Discipline Act
by virtue of section 90
of that Act; and
(b) was, in pursuance
of a naval engagement—
(i) employed or engaged
in seagoing service in a ship forming part of His Majesty's Navy; or
(ii) temporarily employed
or engaged in a Depot Ship forming part of His Majesty's Navy either pending
his being employed or engaged in seagoing service in pursuance of that engagement
or pending termination of that engagement after he has been employed or engaged
in seagoing service in pursuance thereof:
(7) “naval engagement”,
in relation to any person, means an engagement with
the Admiralty to serve His Majesty—
(a) in a particular ship; or
(b) in a particular
ship or such ships as the Admiralty may from time to time determine:Provided that, where a person
entered into two or more successive naval engagements which succeeded each
other without an interval, those engagements shall be deemed for the purposes
of this Scheme to constitute a single naval engagement:
(8) “the Naval Order”
means the Order in Council dated 25th September 1964
concerning pensions and other grants in respect of disablement or death due
to service in the naval forces during the 1914 World War and after 2nd September
1939, as for the time being in force, or any Order in Council substituted
therefor:
(9) “public funds”
means moneys provided by Parliament or the Parliament
of Northern Ireland, moneys the payment whereof is a charge on the Consolidated
Fund of the United Kingdom or of Northern Ireland, moneys provided by any
general or local rate or by a fund established under or by virtue of any public,
general or local Act, and moneys payable under any enactment, ordinance, regulation
or other instrument forming part of the law of any place outside the United
Kingdom:
(10) “qualifying injury”,
in relation to a naval auxiliary member, means a war
injury or a war risk injury, being in either case an injury sustained by the
naval auxiliary member by reason of his service:
(11) “rank” includes rating:
(12) “service”,
in relation to a naval auxiliary member, means service
after 2nd September 1939, in pursuance of a naval engagement:

(13) “ship forming part of His Majesty's
Navy” means a ship of the Royal
Navy in commission:
(14) “war injury”
and 
“war risk injury” have the
meanings respectively assigned thereto in Schedule 1
to this Scheme.
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(1) The rules for the construction
of Acts of Parliament contained in the Interpretation Act 1889 shall
apply in relation to this Scheme and in relation to the revocation effected
by it as if this Scheme and the Scheme revoked by it were Acts of Parliament
and as if the revocation were a repeal.
(2) References in this Scheme
to any enactment or Order shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be
construed as references to that enactment or Order as amended by or under
any other enactment or Order, or to any other enactment or Order substituted
therefor.
(3) Where a claim under this
Scheme other than one specified in the following paragraph of this Article
is made, there shall be no onus on the claimant to prove that disablement
or death is directly attributable to the relevant qualifying injury or detention
and the benefit of any reasonable doubt on those questions shall be given
to the claimant.
(4) Where a claim under this
Scheme—
(a) in respect of disablement
is made more than 7 years after the date of the relevant qualifying injury
or end of detention; or
(b) is made in respect
of the death of a person, such death having occurred more than 7 years after
the date of the relevant qualifying injury or end of detention;and, upon reliable evidence, a reasonable doubt exists whether
the disablement is, or the death was, directly attributable to the relevant
qualifying injury or detention, the benefit of that reasonable doubt shall
be given to the claimant.
(5) For the purposes of this
Scheme, the detention of a naval auxiliary member may be treated as continuing
until whichever is the earliest of the following dates, that is to say—

(a) the date of his death;
or
(b) the date on which it
was first practicable for him to go to the place to which he ought to have
gone for the purpose of resuming the performance of his duties under the naval
engagement in pursuance of which he was serving at the commencement of the
detention; or
(c) the date on which it
was first practicable for him, without committing a breach of the naval engagement
in pursuance of which he was serving at the commencement of the detention,
to return to the country to which he belonged;or until such other date as the Minister may direct in relation
to that naval auxiliary member or to any class of naval auxiliary members.

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(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.
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(1) For the purposes of this
Scheme, a naval auxiliary member shall be treated as holding on the material
date the equivalent naval rank which is specified in Schedule 2 to this Scheme in relation
to the capacity, or the capacity and circumstances, in which he was rendering
service, and the qualifications which he held, on that date:Provided that where, in the case
of a naval auxiliary member holding a commission granted by His Majesty for
the purpose of his service, his commissioned rank was on the material date
higher than the rank specified in Schedule 2
to this Scheme in relation to the capacity, or the capacity and circumstances,
in which he was rendering service, or the qualifications which he held, on
that date, the equivalent naval rank which the naval auxiliary member shall
for the purposes of this Scheme be treated as holding on that date shall be
his commissioned rank.
(2) Where, on the material
date, a naval auxiliary member—
(a) falls to be treated
by virtue of the foregoing provisions of this Article as holding an equivalent
naval rank which is, in the opinion of the Minister, too low or too high having
regard to any circumstances which the Minister may consider relevant to the
determination of the equivalent naval rank of that naval auxiliary member;
or
(b) was rendering service
in a capacity, or in a capacity and circumstances, not specified in Schedule 2 to this Scheme;that naval auxiliary member shall be treated for the purposes of
this Scheme as holding on that date such equivalent naval rank as is, in the
opinion of the Minister, appropriate.
(3) Where the disablement or
death of a naval auxiliary member is directly attributable, not to a single
qualifying injury or period of detention, but to two or more such causes,
and different ranks would, by virtue of the foregoing provisions of this Article,
be applicable to the different causes of the disablement or death—
(a) any award in respect
of a composite assessment made under sub-paragraph (
b) of Article 9(2) of the Naval Order as applied by this Scheme
shall be made at a composite rate calculated by reference to the degree of
disablement resulting from each such cause and the relevant rank appropriate
thereto, so, however, that where the sum of the separate assessments which
would have been made in respect of those causes but for the said sub-paragraph
exceeds the amount of the composite assessment, the degree of disablement
resulting from the cause to which the lower or lowest of those different relevant
ranks is appropriate shall, for the purpose of calculating the said composite
rate, be treated as reduced by the amount of the excess, and
(b) any award under Part
IV of the Naval Order as applied by this Scheme shall be at a rate calculated
by reference only to the higher or highest of those different relevant ranks.

6 
Where the disablement of a naval auxiliary member is directly attributable
to a qualifying injury or to detention, the provisions of the Naval Order,
in so far as they concern pensions and other grants in respect of disablement
due to service after 2nd September 1939 and modified in the respects indicated
in Schedule 3 to
this Scheme, shall apply to him so as to secure that, subject to the provisions
of this Scheme, there may be made on the termination of the naval engagement
in the course of which he sustained the qualifying injury or suffered the
detention an award or awards in respect of that disablement of the like nature
and amount as would, having regard to his equivalent naval rank, have been
made in respect thereof under the Naval Order if he had been a member of the
naval forces for the purposes of that Order and his disablement had been due
to service as a member of those forces.
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(1) 
Where a naval auxiliary member who has suffered disablement which is directly
attributable to a qualifying injury or to detention (in this Article referred
to as the “relevant disablement”) has been awarded
a pension or other grant payable out of public funds (otherwise than under
this Scheme) in respect of some other disablement however caused, the degree
of the relevant disablement shall not exceed the difference between—
(a) the degree of the other disablement
determined by reference to the assessment on which payment of the said pension
or other grant is being made or, where that payment is not based on any specific
assessment, the assessment which, in the opinion of the Minister, having regard
to the regulations under which that payment is made, is appropriate to that
other disablement; and
(b) the degree at
which the relevant disablement and the other disablement, determined as aforesaid,
would together have been assessed on a composite assessment if both disablements
had fallen to be assessed under the Naval Order as applied by this Scheme.

(2) The Minister may, notwithstanding
anything in this Scheme or in the Naval Order as applied by this Scheme, make
such award in respect of the relevant disablement as will secure that the
aggregate value of the award in respect of that disablement and of the pension
or other grant in respect of the other disablement is not less than the value
of the award which, if both disablements had come within the scope of this
Scheme, would have been made by virtue of Article 5(3)
of this Scheme having regard to the equivalent naval rank of the member in
relation to the relevant disablement and the rank which is, or should, in
the opinion of the Minister, be assumed to be, the basis of the pension or
other grant in respect of the other disablement.
(3) The provisions of this
Article shall not apply where a naval auxiliary member to whom an award in
respect of the relevant disablement may be made has been awarded a pension
or other grant payable, in respect of some other disablement however caused,
under the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Acts 1946 to 1964, or under
any legislation in Northern Ireland corresponding to those Acts, or under
the law of any place outside the United Kingdom which in the opinion of the
Minister is analogous to those Acts.
(4) Where an award may be made
under the Naval Order as applied by this Scheme in respect of a member of
the disabled person's family in respect of whom an award is not comprised
in the pension or other grant in respect of the other disablement, the provisions
of this Article shall not apply in relation to that award.
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(1) Where the death of a naval
auxiliary member is directly attributable to a qualifying injury or to detention,
the provisions of the Naval Order, in so far as they concern pensions and
other grants in respect of death due to service after 2nd September 1939 and
modified in the respects indicated in Schedule 3
to this Scheme, shall apply so as to secure that, subject to the provisions
of this Scheme, there may be made an award or awards of the like nature and
amount as would, having regard to his equivalent naval rank, have been made
under the Naval Order if he had been a member of the naval forces for the
purposes of that Order and his death had been due to service as a member of
those forces:Provided that an award under
this Article shall not be made where the death of the naval auxiliary member
takes place more than 7 years after the date of the relevant qualifying injury
or end of detention unless at the date of his death he then was, or at any
time previously thereto had been, in receipt of a pension awarded by the Minister
under this Scheme or any previous Scheme made under section 5(1) of the Act.
(2) In this Article, the expression “pension”
 includes a weekly allowance, a gratuity
or an allowance in respect of a period of treatment as defined in Article
21(8) of the Naval Order as applied by this Scheme.
9 
Where the Minister is satisfied that a payment (not being a payment
in respect of the cost of a funeral) has been or will be made in respect of
an injury (whether resulting in disablement or death)—
(a) under section 1
of the Superannuation
Act 1887, as amended by section 11
of the Superannuation
Act 1935, or by section 9
of the Superannuation
Act (Northern Ireland) 1935; or
(b) under or by virtue of section 41
or 56
of the Superannuation
Act 1949; or
(c) under any Order in Council
relating to pensions for officers of the Royal Fleet Auxiliaries;
no award of a pension, allowance or gratuity on account
of any disablement or death which is directly attributable to that injury
shall be made under the Naval Order as applied by this Scheme and any such
award which has been made shall be cancelled:
Provided that, where the Minister
is satisfied that, in respect of any period, the aggregate annual value of
the payments which are being or will be made under or by virtue of the said
section 1, section 41 or section 56 falls short of the aggregate annual value
of the payments which, but for the foregoing provisions of this Article, would
have been made in respect of that period under this Scheme or under the Naval
Order as applied by this Scheme, the Minister may make such awards under this
Scheme or under the Naval Order as applied by this Scheme as he may consider
appropriate in order to make good the deficiency.
10 

(1) The rate or amount of
any pension, allowance, gratuity or other grant which may be awarded under
this Scheme or under the Naval Order as applied by this Scheme to or in respect
of a person to whom this Article applies may be reduced to such extent as
the Minister may consider appropriate, and (unless the Minister, having regard
to any circumstances which seem to him relevant, otherwise directs in relation
to a person coming within paragraph (2) (c)
or (d) of this Article) shall not exceed
two-thirds of the rate or amount which, but for this Article, would have been
applicable.
(2) This Article applies to—

(a) any person ordinarily
resident outside the United Kingdom who, for the performance of his duties
under the naval engagement by virtue of which his case comes within this Scheme,
was receiving or due to receive remuneration which is shown to the satisfaction
of the Minister to be substantially lower than the remuneration customary
in the case of a person ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom who undertakes
in the United Kingdom to perform similar duties;
(b) any member of the
family of a person coming within subparagraph (a)
of this paragraph;
(c) any person whose country
of origin is one where the standards of remuneration applicable for his employment
are shown to the satisfaction of the Minister to be substantially lower than
the standards of remuneration applicable in the United Kingdom for similar
employment, and who is resident in that country or in some other country where
the standards of remuneration applicable for his employment are shown to the
satisfaction of the Minister to be substantially lower than the standards
of remuneration applicable in the United Kingdom for similar employment;
(d) any member of the
family of a person whose country of origin is as aforesaid, being a member
of the family who is resident in the said country or in some other country
such as aforesaid.
11 
Where, in the case of any person to whom a pension or allowance
may be or has been awarded under this Scheme or under the Naval Order as applied
by this Scheme, the Minister is satisfied that the payment of a lump sum in
lieu of that pension or allowance is justified by the circumstances of the
case, the Minister may pay to that person such a lump sum, and any reference
in this Scheme or in the Naval Order as applied by this Scheme to a gratuity
shall be construed as including a reference to a lump sum under this Article.

12 
Any assignment or charge, and any agreement to assign or charge,
any pension, allowance, gratuity or other grant which may be or has been awarded
under this Scheme or under the Naval Order as applied by this Scheme shall,
for the purposes of this Scheme, be void.
13 
The provisions of the Naval Order as applied by this Scheme shall
apply in relation to any medical question which arises under this Scheme in
like manner as they apply in relation to any matter which is required by the
Naval Order to be certified and which involves a medical question.
14 

(1) Any person to whom a pension,
allowance or gratuity has been awarded under this Scheme or under the Naval
Order as applied by this Scheme, and any person to whom payment of that pension,
allowance or gratuity is to be made, shall, if and when required by the Minister
so to do, subscribe such declaration as the Minister may from time to time
direct.
(2) Where a declaration is
subscribed under paragraph (1) of this Article by a person who is not the
person to whom the pension, allowance or gratuity has been awarded, there
shall be furnished, if and when required by the Minister, such certificate
as the Minister may from time to time direct.
(3) If such a declaration
or certificate as may have been required by the Minister under this Article
to be subscribed or furnished is not subscribed or furnished, payment of the
pension, allowance or gratuity shall be withheld until the requirements of
the Minister under this Article have been satisfied.
15 

(1) The Minister shall be
the sole administrator of this Scheme and, subject to the provisions of the
Pensions Appeal Tribunals Acts 1943 and 1949, all questions with respect to the effect or operation of
this Scheme shall be determined by the Minister and his decision thereon shall
be final and conclusive.
(2) The Minister may make
regulations for giving effect to the purposes of this Scheme.
16 

(1) Subject to the provisions
of this Article, the War Pensions (Naval Auxiliary
Personnel) Scheme 1949 is hereby revoked.
(2) Any thing made or done
under or in pursuance of any provision herein-before revoked shall be deemed
to have been made or done under or in pursuance of the corresponding provision
of this Scheme, and anything begun under any provision so revoked may be continued
under this Scheme as if begun under this Scheme.
(3) 
(a) Where, immediately
before the coming into operation of this Scheme, an allowance granted under
Article 12(4) of the Naval Order of 4th June 1946, as applied by the War Pensions (Naval Auxiliary
Personnel) Scheme 1946 as amended by the War Pensions (Naval Auxiliary Personnel) (Amendment) Scheme 1948

in respect of an unmarried dependant living as a wife of a naval auxiliary
member was being paid, that allowance may be continued until the conditions
for the grant of an allowance under the said Article cease to be fulfilled;

(b) where an allowance
has been continued by virtue of subparagraph (a)
of this paragraph until the death of the naval auxiliary member, an award
may be made under Article 28 of the Naval Order of 4th June 1946, as applied
by the War Pensions (Naval Auxiliary
Personnel) Scheme 1946, as amended by the War Pensions (Naval Auxiliary Personnel) (Amendment) Scheme 1948
, if and for so long as the conditions for
an award under that Article are fulfilled;
(c) an award may be continued
under Article 28(4) of the Naval Order of 4th June 1946, as applied by the War Pensions (Naval Auxiliary Personnel) Scheme 1946,
as amended by the War Pensions (Naval Auxiliary
Personnel) (Amendment) Scheme 1948, to an unmarried
dependant living as a wife if, immediately before the coming into operation
of this Scheme, she was in receipt of a pension under Article 28(2) or 28(3)
of the said Naval Order as so applied and, on the expiration of the period
of 12 months beginning with the date of the member's death, or at the date
when she ceases to have in her charge a child of the member and to receive
an allowance in respect of that child under the provisions of the Naval Order
as applied by this scheme, as the case may be, she is in pecuniary need and
incapable of self-support.
(4) Any relevant provision
of this Scheme or of the Naval Order as applied by this Scheme shall, as from
the commencing date of this Scheme, apply to any case where the disablement
or death of a naval auxiliary member was directly attributable to a qualifying
injury sustained or detention suffered on or after 3rd September 1939, but
before the commencing date, whether an award has been made under any previous
Scheme or not.
(5) In this Article, the expression 
“unmarried dependant living as a wife” has the same meaning as in the Naval Order as applied by this Scheme
.
Margaret Herbison
Minister of Pensions and National Insurance
14th December 1964We consent.
G. H. R. Rogers
Ifor Davies
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury
15th December 1964
SCHEDULE 1
1 
A war injury is a physical injury—
(a) caused by—

(i) the discharge
of any missile (including liquids and gas); or
(ii) the use of
any weapon, explosive or other noxious thing; or
(iii) the doing
of any other injurious act;either by the enemy or in combating the enemy or in repelling an
imagined attack by the enemy; or
(b) caused by the impact
on any person or property of any enemy aircraft, or any aircraft belonging
to, or held by any person on behalf of or for the benefit of, His Majesty
or any allied power, or any part of, or anything dropped from any such aircraft.

2 
A war risk injury is a physical injury sustained
on or after 3rd September 1939 at sea or in any other tidal water or in the
waters of any harbour and attributable to—
(a) the taking of measures
with a view to avoiding, preventing or hindering enemy action against ships,
or as a precaution in anticipation of enemy action against ships, or for rescue
or salvage purposes in consequence of enemy action against ships; or
(b) the absence, by reason
of circumstances connected with any war in which His Majesty may be engaged,
of any aid to navigation for ships, or of any warning of danger to ships,
being an aid or warning which would be normal in time of peace; or
(c) the carriage, by
reason of circumstances connected with any such war as aforesaid, of any cargo
in a manner which would be abnormal in time of peace and involves danger to
the ship in which the cargo is carried or to her crew; or
(d) the existence on
board ship of any other conditions arising out of any such war as aforesaid
which would be abnormal in time of peace:Provided that—
(i) in
relation to injuries sustained in the waters of a harbour, the measures specified
in subparagraph (a) of this paragraph do
not include the prohibition or restriction of lights other than navigational
lights; and
(ii) 
in relation to a salvage worker, or the master or a member of the crew of
a salvage vessel, the references in subparagraph (
a) of this paragraph to measures taken for salvage purposes shall
not apply.
3 
For the purposes of paragraph 2
of this Schedule, an injury shall be treated as being attributable to the
matters specified in subparagraph (a), subparagraph (b),
subparagraph (c) or subparagraph (d) of that
paragraph if, but only if, they substantially increased the risk of the peril
occurring which caused the injury.
4 
In this Schedule, the following expressions
have, except where the context otherwise requires, the meanings hereby respectively
assigned to them, that is to say—
(a) “harbour”
means any harbour, whether natural or artificial, and
any port, dock, haven, estuary, tidal or other river, canal or inland navigation
to which seagoing ships have access;
(b) “navigational light”
means a light displayed, whether on a ship or otherwise,
as an aid to navigation for ships or as a warning of danger to ships;

(c) “physical injury” includes tuberculosis and any other organic disease, and the aggravation
thereof;
(d) “salvage”
means the preservation or recovery of vessels wrecked,
stranded or in distress, or their cargo or apparel, or the recovery of any
other property from the water and includes the removal of wrecks,
and 
“salvage operations” and “salvage purposes” shall be construed accordingly;
(e) “salvage vessel”
means a ship regularly employed, or chartered for the
purposes of being employed, in salvage operations;
(f) “salvage worker”
means any person, other than a member of His Majesty's
naval forces, who, not being the master or a member of the crew of a ship,
is regularly employed in salvage operations;
(g) “tidal water”
means any part of the sea, and any part of a river within
the ebb and flow of the tide at ordinary spring tides and not being a harbour
.
SCHEDULE 2

In this Schedule, except where
otherwise expressly provided,—
(a) “ship” does not include a commissioned auxiliary vessel not exceeding 1,000
tons formerly a home trade cargo ship, or an Admiralty cable ship or small
craft;
(b) “certificated”, in relation
to a deck officer, means holding a certificate of competency
for a foreign-going ship;
(c) “tons” means gross tons.

TABLE I
 Equivalent naval
rank
Capacity, or capacity and circumstances,
and qualifications In ships not exceeding 2,500
tons In ships exceeding 2,500 tons but not exceeding
10,000 tons In ships exceeding 10,000
tons
DECK OFFICERS
Chief Navigating Officer Lieutenant Lieut.-Commander Commander
First Mate
Certificated:—
(1) Master Lieutenant Lieutenant Lieut.-Commander
(2) Mate Sub-Lieutenant Sub-Lieutenant —
Uncertificated Acting Sub-Lieutenant Acting Sub-Lieutenant —
Second Mate
Certificated:—
(1) Master if over 30 years of age. Lieutenant Lieutenant Lieutenant
(2) Master if 30 years of age or under. Sub-Lieutenant Sub-Lieutenant Lieutenant
(3) Mate Sub-Lieutenant Sub-Lieutenant Sub-Lieutenant
Uncertificated Acting Sub-Lieutenant Acting Sub-Lieutenant Acting Sub-Lieutenant
Third Mate
Certificated:—
(1) Master Sub-Lieutenant Sub-Lieutenant Lieutenant
(2) Mate Sub-Lieutenant Sub-Lieutenant Sub-Lieutenant
Uncertificated Acting Sub-Lieutenant Acting Sub-Lieutenant Acting Sub-Lieutenant
Other Mates
Certificated Sub-Lieutenant Sub-Lieutenant Sub-Lieutenant
Uncertificated Acting Sub-Lieutenant Acting Sub-Lieutenant Acting Sub-Lieutenant
Apprentice or Cadet
With 3 years' experience or more. Midshipman Midshipman Midshipman
With less than 3 years' experience. Cadet Cadet Cadet
ENGINEERS
Chief Engineer Lieutenant Lieut.-Commander Commander
2nd Engineer Sub-Lieutenant Lieutenant Lieut.-Commander
3rd Engineer
Certificated Sub-Lieutenant Sub-Lieutenant Lieutenant
Uncertificated Acting Sub-Lieutenant Acting Sub-Lieutenant Acting Sub-Lieutenant
4th and Junior Engineers
Certificated Sub-Lieutenant Sub-Lieutenant Sub-Lieutenant
Uncertificated Acting Sub-Lieutenant Acting Sub-Lieutenant Acting Sub-Lieutenant
Chief Refrigerating Engineer
Certificated:—
1st Class — Lieutenant Lieutenant
2nd Class — Sub-Lieutenant Sub-Lieutenant
Uncertificated — Acting Sub-Lieutenant Acting Sub-Lieutenant
Other Refrigerating Engineers
Certificated — Sub-Lieutenant Sub-Lieutenant
Uncertificated — Acting Sub-Lieutenant Acting Sub-Lieutenant
PURSERS
Purser Sub-Lieutenant Lieutenant Lieut.-Commander
Senior Assistant Purser — Sub-Lieutenant Lieutenant
Junior Assistant Purser — Sub-Lieutenant Sub-Lieutenant
RADIO OFFICERS
Radio Officer
With 3 years' sea service or more. Sub-Lieutenant Sub-Lieutenant Sub-Lieutenant
With less than 3 years' sea service. Warrant Officer Warrant Officer Warrant Officer
Radio Cadet
With over 1 year's sea service. Midshipman Midshipman Midshipman
With 1 year's sea service or less. Cadet Cadet Cadet
The foregoing Table is subject in the following cases to
the following variations:—
(a) where, in a ship exceeding 2,500 tons
but not exceeding 10,000 tons, the First Mate was engaged as Chief Navigating
Officer, his equivalent naval rank shall be Lieutenant;
(b) where an Engineer Officer held only a
second class certificate, his equivalent naval rank shall not in any case
be higher than Sub-Lieutenant;
(c) where, in a Home Trade passenger ship
not exceeding 2,500 tons, being a ship of 15 knots or over, the Chief or Second
Engineer held a first class certificate, his equivalent naval rank shall be
Lieutenant-Commander in the case of the Chief Engineer and Lieutenant in the
case of the Second Engineer;
(d) where, in a ship exceeding 2,500 tons
but not exceeding 10,000 tons, being a ship with a complement of 200 hands
or over, the Purser had two or more subordinate accounting officers, the equivalent
naval ranks of the Purser and the Senior Assistant Purser shall be Lieutenant-Commander
and Lieutenant, respectively.

TABLE II
 Equivalent naval rank
Capacity
 In ships where two or one were borne In ships where three were borne In ships where four or more were borne
Chief Electrician Acting Sub-Lieutenant Sub-Lieutenant Lieutenant
2nd Electrician Acting Sub-Lieutenant Acting Sub-Lieutenant Sub-Lieutenant
Other Electricians — Acting Sub-Lieutenant Acting Sub-Lieutenant

TABLE III
 Equivalent naval
rank
Capacity and qualifications
 In ships of less than 8,000 tons In ships of 8,000 tons or more
Boilermaker
Certificated Chief Petty Officer Sub-Lieutenant
Uncertificated Chief Petty Officer Acting Sub-Lieutenant

TABLE IV
Capacity, or capacity and qualifications
 Equivalent naval rank
Towing Master Lieutenant
Other Deck Officers
Certificated Sub-Lieutenant
Uncertificated Acting Sub-Lieutenant
Chief Engineer
Certificated 1st Class Lieutenant
Certificated 2nd Class Sub-Lieutenant
Other Engineers
Certificated Sub-Lieutenant
Uncertificated Acting Sub-Lieutenant

TABLE V
Capacity, or capacity and circumstances Equivalent naval rank
DECK DEPARTMENT
Boatswain
Carpenter Chief Petty Officer
Plumber
Boatswain's Mate Petty Officer
Carpenter's Mate
Craneman
Lamp Trimmer
Launchman
Painter Leading Rating
Quartermaster
Storekeeper
Winchman
A.B. A.B.
O.S.
ENGINEER'S DEPARTMENT
Sanitary Engineer Chief Petty Officer
Donkeyman
First Leading Fireman
Leading Hand Diesel
Electrical Assistant Petty Officer
Pumpman
Storekeeper
Winchman
Greaser
Leading Fireman Leading Rating
Storekeeper Engine-room Assistant
Fireman
Trimmer A.B.
Cleaner and Wiper
CATERING DEPARTMENT
Chief Steward in a ship exceeding 10,000 tons Warrant Officer
Chief Steward in a ship not exceeding 10,000 tons Chief Petty Officer
Chief Cook
Baker
Butcher
First Writer or No. 1 Purser's Clerk
Head Waiter Petty Officer
Hospital Attendant
Saloon Steward
Second Steward
Ship's Cook (including rating signed as “second Cook
and ship's Cook”)
Pantry Man
Cook
Leading Steward Leading Rating
Second Writer or No. 2 Purser's Clerk
Storekeeper
Second Baker
Assistant Butcher
Assistant Cook (rated as such)
Assistant Pantryman A.B.
Steward or Assistant Steward (where so described)
Boy Steward
Assistant Storekeeper

TABLE VI
Capacity, or capacity and circumstances Equivalent naval rank
Cable Foreman Warrant Officer
Boatswain (not described as Cable Foreman) Chief Petty Officer
Assistant Cable Foreman Chief Petty Officer
Leading Hand (not described as Assistant Cable Foreman)
 Petty Officer
Cable Jointer Chief Petty Officer
Chief Quartermaster (rated as such in a ship carrying three
Quartermasters) Petty Officer
Quartermaster Leading Rating
Storekeeper Leading Rating
Leading Seaman Leading Rating
A.B. A.B.
Chief Stoker Chief Petty Officer
Leading Stoker Leading Rating
Stoker A.B.
Chief Steward (with or without an assistant) Chief Petty Officer
Senior Steward (in a ship with two or more Stewards in addition
to a Chief Steward) Petty Officer
Steward Leading Rating
Officers' Cook (with or without an assistant) Petty Officer
Crew's Cook Leading Rating
Captain's Writer Petty Officer
Wireless Operator A.B.
O.S. A.B.

SCHEDULE 3

The provisions of the Naval Order
shall be modified for the purposes of their application to naval auxiliary
members in the following respects:—
(i) Articles 1(17), 1(18), 1(19), 1(21), 1(28), 1(32), 4, 5, 7, 8(3) and 71, Part V and Schedule 9,
and any provision in so far as it relates to a woman member of the naval forces,
or the husband, widower, child, parent or other dependant of such a member,
shall be deleted;
(ii) for the words and phrases set out in
column (1) of the following Table there shall be substituted the words and
phrases set out in column (2) of that Table;

TABLE
Words and phrases in Naval Order Substitution for application to naval auxiliary
members
(1) (2)
Member of the naval forces Naval auxiliary member.
Officer Naval auxiliary member who is to be treated for the purposes
of this Scheme as holding an equivalent naval rank which is that of a commissioned,
subordinate or warrant officer of the Royal Navy.
Rank Equivalent naval rank as defined in this Scheme.
Service Service as defined in this Scheme.
Commencement of service Commencement of the first naval engagement after 2nd September
1939.
Termination of service Termination of the naval engagement in the course of which
the naval auxiliary member sustained the qualifying injury or suffered the
detention to which his disablement or death is, or is claimed to be, directly
attributable.
Due to service Directly attributable to a qualifying injury or to detention.

During service While serving on a naval engagement.
Material date Material date as defined in this Scheme.
Injury (in Article 6)
 Qualifying injury or detention.
Due to more than one injury (in Article 9(2) (b))
 Directly attributable, not to a single qualifying injury
or period of detention, but to two or more such causes.
Injuries (in Article 9 (2) (b))
 Causes of the disablement.
Payment made during the member's lifetime in respect of
his service as a member (in Article 26)
 Allotment or similar payment made by the member in his lifetime.

(iii) any reference to a commissioned officer,
warrant officer, rating or other rank shall be construed as a reference to
a naval auxiliary member who is to be treated for the purposes of this Scheme
as holding an equivalent naval rank which is that of a commissioned officer,
warrant officer or rating, as the case may be, any reference to a specific
rank or rating shall be construed as a reference to a naval auxiliary member
who is to be treated for the purposes of this Scheme as holding an equivalent
naval rank which is that of that rank or rating, and any reference to retired
pay shall be construed as a reference to pension.
