125Saving of pensions etc

125 Saving of pensions etc

(1) Where, immediately before the commencement of these Regulations, a pension at a rate calculated under Part V of the Superannuation Ordinance (including a pension part of which was payable pursuant to paragraph 81(1)(a) of that Ordinance and the Superannuation Regulations 1970 under that Ordinance) was payable to a person, a pension at that rate shall, after the commencement of these Regulations, and subject to these Regulations, continue to be payable to him. (2) Where, immediately before the commencement of these Regulations, an increase in pension or increases in pension at a rate or rates calculated under Part V of the Superannuation Ordinance was or were payable to a person, that increase in pension or those increases in pension shall, after the commencement of these Regulations, and subject to these Regulations, continue to be payable to him. (3) Where, immediately before the commencement of these Regulations, an increase in pension or increases in pension by virtue of, and at a rate or rates calculated under, Part III of the Superannuation (Papua and New Guinea) Ordinance (No. 3) 1963, the Superannuation (Pensions Increases) Ordinance 1967‑1968 or the Superannuation (Pensions Increases) Ordinance 1971, was or were payable to a person, that increase in pension or those increases in pension shall, after the commencement of these Regulations, and subject to these Regulations, continue to be payable to him. (4) Where, immediately before the commencement of these Regulations, a benefit (other than a pension) under the Superannuation Ordinance of an amount calculated under that Ordinance was payable to a person, that benefit shall, after the commencement of these Regulations, and subject to these Regulations, continue to be payable to him. (4A) Where, immediately before the commencement of these Regulations, a person was entitled to Superannuation allowance or a pension in accordance with the Superannuation Ordinance 1917‑1955 of the Territory of Papua or the Superannuation Ordinance 1928‑1955 of the Territory of New Guinea, as the case may be, that allowance or pension shall, after the commencement of, and subject to, these Regulations continue to be payable to him. (4B) Where, after the commencement of these Regulations, a person became or becomes entitled to superannuation allowance or a pension in accordance with the Superannuation Ordinance 1928‑1955 of the Territory of New Guinea, that allowance or pension shall, on and from the date on which he so became or becomes entitled, be payable to him as if it were superannuation allowance or a pension of the kind referred to in subregulation (4A). (5) Where the Board had suspended a pension under section 51AA of the Superannuation Ordinance and that suspension was in effect immediately before the commencement of these Regulations, that suspension shall, after the commencement of these Regulations, and subject to these Regulations, continue in effect and, for the purposes of these Regulations, shall be deemed to be a suspension under regulation 60.