The Naval Medical Compassionate Fund Act 1915 (5 & 6 Geo. 5. c. 28) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that reorganised the management of the Naval Medical Compassionate Fund, a charitable fund providing benefits to the widows and orphans of naval medical officers, and repealed the earlier acts governing it.
Provisions Repealed enactments Section 1(3) of the act repealed 4 enactments, listed in the schedule to the act. CitationShort titleDescriptionExtent of repeal11 & 12 Vict. c. 58Naval Medical Supplement Fund Society Act 1848An Act to authorise for Ten Years, and to the end of the then next Session of Parliament, the Regulation of the Annuities, and Premiums of the Naval Medical Supplemental Fund Society.The whole act.22 Vict. c. 28Naval Medical Supplemental Fund Society Act 1859An Act to continue the Act for the Regulation of the Annuities and Premiums of the Naval Medical Supplemental Fund Society.The whole act.24 & 25 Vict. c. 108Naval Medical Supplemental Fund Society Winding-up Act 1861The Naval Medical Supplemental Fund Society Winding-Up Act, 1861.The whole act.26 & 27 Vict. c. 111Naval Medical, etc., Society Act 1863An Act to amend the Naval Medical Supplemental Fund Society Winding-Up Act, 1861.The whole act.
Subsequent developments An Order in Council made under section 1, the Naval Medical Compassionate Fund Order 2008 (SI 2008/3129), appointed the Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity as sole trustee of the fund and established a management committee for it.
The whole act was repealed by section 27 of, and by section 30(2) of and schedule 5 to, the Armed Forces Act 2011, which came into force on 2 April 2012, so that the fund could be transferred to, and administered under, the Charities Act 1993.
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