Disabled Persons (Employment) Act 1944

8 Duration of registration, and subsequent applications for registration

(1) Subject to the provisions of the two next succeeding subsections, when the name of a person has been entered in the register it shall be retained therein—

(a) in the case of any person other than a 1914-18 disablement pensioner, until the expiration of such period as may be specified by the Minister at the time of the entry as the time for which his name is to be retained therein without further application (or until his death during that period),

(b) in the case of such a pensioner, so long as he continues to be such,

and no longer.

(2) The Minister may make regulations prescribing matters which are to constitute conditions of, or disqualifications from, the retention in the register of the names of any persons, either generally or in particular circumstances.

The provisions of subsection (1) of the last preceding section as to the matters which may be prescribed thereunder shall have effect as respects the matters which may be prescribed under this subsection.

(3) If at any time whilst the name of any person is retained in the register the Minister is satisfied, after referring the matter to a district advisory committee for their recommendations and considering their recommendations, that any prescribed condition as to the retention of names in the register applicable to that person is not satisfied or that he is subject to any prescribed disqualification in that behalf, his name shall be removed from the register.

(4) The Minister may by regulations make provision—

(a) for authorising the making of applications under the last preceding-section by persons whose names are for the time being in the register, but the period of whose registration is due shortly to expire; and

(b) for the temporary retention in the register of the names of persons who, having been 1914-18 disablement pensioners, cease to be such, with a view to enabling any such person to make, if he so desires, an application as mentioned in the preceding paragraph;

and any entry to be made in the register pursuant to an application authorised under this subsection shall be made when the Minister's determination on the application is given, in substitution (if the applicant's name then remains in the register) for the existing entry.

(5) The Minister shall not be required to entertain an application under the last preceding section by a person whose name is not for the time being in the register by reason of any determination of the Minister under that section, or under subsection (3) of this section, unless he satisfies the Minister that circumstances relevant to that determination have changed since it was made.