The Gazette of India Delhi Saturday February 15 1919

the powers of local authorities and without prejudice to any powers conferred by or under any such enactment a local authority may grant a pension or gratuity to any officer thereof who may since the fourth day of August 1914 have been wounded or otherwise incapacitated in the service of Government and to the widow or child of any such officer who may have died in consequence of injuries recei [...] or gratuity payable to the officer or his wife or child as the case may be under any general or special orders of His Majesty in Council or of the Governor General in Council but shall not save with the sanction of the Governer General in Council exceed the amount of the pension or gratuity to which the officer or his wife or child would have been entitled under any such orders if his employm [...] decision of a local authority to grant a pension or gratuity thereunder shall be made in such manner and shall be subject to such sanction as may be prescribed by any enactment or rule regulating the grant by such local authority of pensions and gratuities. Provided that in every case the sanction of the Local Government shall be necessary. [...] Provisions already exist in some of the enactments relating to local authorities for thq grant of pensions and gratuities to employes who may be wounded and to the families or employes who may be killed in execution of their duty. [...] The Act will be an enabling Act the provisions df which can be made applicable by such local authorities as care to avail themselves of it to any ease covered by the terms of the Act the sanction of the Local Government being required in each case.