Defence Forces Retirement Benefits (Pension Increases) Act 1961
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12 Payment of pension increases
(1) The reference in subsection (1) of section fifteen B of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948‑1959 to benefits under that Act shall be read as including a reference to increases in pensions payable under this Act. (2) The Commonwealth shall pay to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund amounts equal to the amounts by which payments of pensions (including pensions that become payable to widows of prescribed pensioners who die on or after the commencing date) are increased by virtue of this Act, and the Consolidated Revenue Fund is, to the necessary extent, appropriated accordingly.