4Application of Regulations

4 Application of Regulations

If a person became entitled to payment of a benefit in accordance with either or both of: (a) the Act; and (b) regulations made under the Act; in the period starting on 1 July 2008 and ending immediately before the date on which these Regulations commence, the amount of the benefit payable to the person is, on the commencement of these Regulations, increased by an amount equivalent to the difference, if any, between the benefit that the person was actually entitled to receive and the benefit that the person would have been entitled to receive had these Regulations commenced on 1 July 2008.