Defence Forces Retirement Benefits (Pension Increases) Act 1961
8Application of increases to suspended pensions
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8 Application of increases to suspended pensions
Where a person would, but for section fifty‑three A of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948‑1959, be a prescribed pensioner for the purposes of this Act, that person shall, upon his pension again becoming payable to him after the commencement of this Act, be entitled to an increase in the pension equal to the increase to which he would have been entitled if he had been a prescribed pensioner.