Parliamentary Retiring Allowances (Increases) Act 1967 (Cth)

Parliamentary Retiring Allowances (Increases) Act 1967

No. 92 of 1967

An Act to provide for Increases in certain Parliamentary Retiring Allowances

Contents 1 Short title 2 Commencement 3 Increases in rates of certain pensions 4 Increases in rates of pensions in relation to certain persons who were members of the twenty‑fourth Parliament 5 Commonwealth to reimburse Fund for increases in pensions 6 Application of Parliamentary Retiring Allowances Act 1948‑1966 7 Application

Parliamentary Retiring Allowances (Increases) Act 1967

No. 92 of 1967

An Act to provide for Increases in certain Parliamentary Retiring Allowances

[Assented to 8 November 1967]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1 Short title This Act may be cited as the Parliamentary Retiring Allowances (Increases) Act 1967.

2 Commencement This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

3 Increases in rates of certain pensions (1) A person: (a) who was, immediately before the commencement of this Act, entitled to a pension in accordance with the Parliamentary Retiring Allowances Act 1948‑1955; or (b) who was, immediately before the commencement of this Act, entitled to a pension in accordance with the Parliamentary Retiring Allowances Act 1948‑1959 and in relation to whom, or, in the case of a person to whom pension was payable as a widow, in relation to whose deceased husband, section 18 of the Parliamentary Retiring Allowances Act 1964‑1966 applied, is entitled to an increase in the rate of that pension in accordance with the following table:

Weekly amount of increase in pension Weekly amount of pension $ $ 30.00 18.16 33.00 23.89 36.00 21.79 42.00 21.79