Commonwealth Numbered Acts

DEFENCE FORCE RETIREMENT AND DEATH BENEFITS (PENSION INCREASES) ACT 1976 No. 34 of 1976 - SECT 20

20. (1) Where, immediately before 1 July 1975, a pension was payable to a
person-

   (a)  being a pension benefit that became payable to the person before 1
        July 1974; or

   (b)  being a pension benefit that became payable, on or after 1 July 1974,
        to the person as a widow, or as an eligible child, by reason of the
        death of a member of the scheme who retired before 1 July 1974, this
        section applies to the person.

(2) The increase provided for by section 19 in the annual amount of the
pension benefit payable to a person to whom this section applies is the
prescribed percentage of the annual amount of the pension benefit payable
immediately before 1 July 1975 or, if the pension benefit is a child's
pension, so much of the annual amount of that benefit so payable as is
referred to as additional pension in whichever of sub-sections 42 (2), 42 (3),
43 (2) and 43 (3) of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act is
applicable.