The Merchant Shipping (Compensation to Seamen—War Damage to Effects) Scheme 1982
The Secretary of State with the consent of the Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 6 and 7 of the Pensions (Navy, Army, Air Force and Mercantile Marine) Act 1939(a) ("the Act of 1939") and now vested in him(b) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf hereby makes the following Scheme:

(a) 1939 c.83; sections 6 and 7 were amended by the Pensions (Mercantile Marine) Act 1942 (c.26).
(b) S.R. & O. 1939/1470, 1941/654, 1946/375; S.I. 1953/1204, 1959/1768, 1965/14...