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 1st July in the particular year, and

(b) a person who is the widow of a pensioner, where that pensioner last became a pensioner on or before 1st 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 60A not been enacted.

ss 31C–31G: Ins 1977 No 51, Sch 1 (2).