3Parts—This Act to be construed with Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948

3 Parts—This Act to be construed with Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948

(1) This Act and the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948‑1959 shall be read and construed together as one Act. (2) Without in any way limiting the generality of the last preceding subsection:

(a) in this Act, unless the contrary intention appears, expressions defined by the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948‑1959 have the same respective meanings as they have in that Act;

(b) a reference in this Act to the category of a person to whom this Act applies shall be read as a reference to the category of members within which that person was, immediately before his retirement, included for the purposes of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948‑1959 and a number specified in a column headed “Category” in a Schedule to this Act shall be read as a reference to the category of members in relation to which that number is specified in the First Schedule to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948‑1959; and

(c) the provisions of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948‑1959 and of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1959 apply, so far as they are applicable and are not inconsistent with this Act, to and in relation to persons to whom this Act applies and to and in relation to gratuities and pensions under this Act, and, for the purposes of those provisions as so applying, a gratuity or pension under this Act shall be deemed to be a gratuity or pension under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948‑1959 and a person in receipt of a pension under this Act shall be deemed to be a pensioner under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948‑1959.