Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SUPERANNUATION AND OTHER BENEFITS LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1989 No. 125, 1989 - SECT 6

6. After section 84G of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:
Pensions payable on or after 20 October 1989-variation of rate "84GA. (1)
Where:

   (a)  a pension is payable to a person on 20 October 1989; and

   (b)  at any time before that day, the rate at which the pension was payable
        to the person was affected because of the operation of subsection 84E
        (2) or 84F (3) or section 84G; the rate at which the pension is
        payable to the person on or after that day is the rate that would
        apply if subsection 84E (2) or 84F (3) or section 84G (as the case may
        be) had not been enacted.

"(2) Where:

   (a)  a person to whom a pension was payable died before 20 October 1989;
        and

   (b)  at any time before that day, the rate at which the pension was payable
        to the person was affected by the operation of subsection 84E (2) or
        84F (3) or section 84G; and

   (c)  because of that person's death, or because of the death of that person
        and of a person to whom a pension became payable on the death of the
        first-mentioned person, a pension is payable to another person; the
        rate at which the last-mentioned pension is payable to that other
        person on or after 20 October 1989 is the rate that would apply if
        subsection 84E (2) or 84F (3) or section 84G (as the case may be) had
        not been enacted.

"(3) Where a pension would, but for its suspension under section 00000108 53B,
be payable to a person on or after 20 October 1989, the pension is 00000109 to
be taken, for the purposes of this section, to be so payable to the 00000110
person.".