Defence Forces Special Retirement Benefits Act 1960 (Cth)

Defence Forces Special Retirement Benefits Act 1960

Act No. 68 of 1960 as amended

This compilation was prepared on 19 April 2001 taking into account amendments up to Act No. 10 of 2001

The text of any of those amendments not in force on that date is appended in the Notes section

Prepared by the Office of Legislative Drafting, Attorney‑General's Department, Canberra

Contents

Part I—Preliminary 1 Short title [see Note 1] 2 Commencement [see Note 1] 3 Parts—This Act to be construed with Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948 4 Persons to whom this Act applies 5 Service for pension 6 Persons discharged with less than six years' service for pension 7 Persons discharged with not less than six years', but less than fifteen years', service for pension 8 Special provisions applicable to gratuities 9 Persons discharged with not less than fifteen years', but less than twenty years', service for pension 10 Persons discharged with not less than twenty years' service for pension 12 Commonwealth contributions in respect of pensions

The Schedules

First Schedule—Rates of pension per annum

Second Schedule—Amounts applicable to pensioners

Notes An Act to provide special Retirement Benefits for certain Members of the Regular Army

Part I—Preliminary

1 Short title [see Note 1]

This Act may be cited as the Defence Forces Special Retirement Benefits Act 1960.

2 Commencement [see Note 1]

This Act shall come into operation on a date to be fixed by Proclamation.

3 Parts—This Act to be construed with Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948

(1) This Act and the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948‑1959 shall be read and construed together as one Act.

(2) Without in any way limiting the generality of the last preceding subsection: (a) in this Act, unless the contrary intention appears, expressions defined by the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948‑1959 have the same respective meanings as they have in that Act; (b) a reference in this Act to the category of a person to whom this Act applies shall be read as a reference to the category of members within which that person was, immediately before his retirement, included for the purposes of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948‑1959 and a number specified in a column headed "Category" in a Schedule to this Act shall be read as a reference to the category of members in relation to which that number is specified in the First Schedule to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948‑1959; and (c) the provisions of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948‑1959 and of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1959 apply, so far as they are applicable and are not inconsistent with this Act, to and in relation to persons to whom this Act applies and to and in relation to gratuities and pensions under this Act, and, for the purposes of those provisions as so applying, a gratuity or pension under this Act shall be deemed to be a gratuity or pension under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948‑1959 and a person in receipt of a pension under this Act shall be deemed to be a pensioner under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948‑1959.