31CAdjustment of pensions: general cases

31C Adjustment of pensions: general cases

31C Adjustment of pensions: general cases

(1) Subject to this Act, where there is an adjustment percentage for a year (in this section referred to as the particular year), the pension payable on the adjustment date for that year to a person to whom this section applies is hereby adjusted, on and from that adjustment date, by that percentage.

(2) This section applies to—

(a) a person who last became a pensioner on or before 1 July in the particular year, and

(b) a person who was the spouse of a pensioner immediately before the pensioner’s death, where the pensioner last became a pensioner on or before 1 July in the particular year and died before the adjustment date for that year.

(3) A reference in subsection (1) to a pension payable to a person includes a reference to the pension that would have been payable to him had section 59A not been enacted.

s 31C: Ins 1977 No 56, Sch 1 (4). Am 1985 No 43, Sch 1 (4); 1990 No 46, Sch 1.