31FMinimum amount to which pensions may be reduced

31F Minimum amount to which pensions may be reduced

31F Minimum amount to which pensions may be reduced

Notwithstanding anything in this Part—

(a) a pension (other than a pension payable to a person by virtue of the person’s being the spouse of a pensioner) shall not be reduced below the fortnightly amount that would, if this Part had not been enacted, have been payable, and

(b) a pension payable to a person by virtue of the person’s being the spouse of a pensioner shall not be reduced below the fortnightly amount that would have been payable by reference to the pension that would, if this Part had not been enacted, have been payable to the late pensioner.

ss 31D–31H: Ins 1977 No 56, Sch 1 (4).