9Application of increase to suspended pensions

9 Application of increase to suspended pensions

Where a pension would, but for its suspension under section 53B of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948, be payable to a person immediately before 1 July 1973 or immediately before the commencement of a prescribed year, that pension shall, for the purposes of this Part, be deemed to have been payable to that person at that time but any increase in that pension by virtue of this Act does not take effect in respect of any part of that period of suspension.