Defence Forces Retirement Benefits (Pension Increases) Act 1961 (Cth)

Defence Forces Retirement Benefits (Pension Increases) Act 1961

Act No. 87 of 1961 as amended

This compilation was prepared on 29 April 2002 taking into account amendments up to Act No. 1 of 1997

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 1 Short title [see Note 1] 2 Commencement [see Note 1] 3 Interpretation 4 Increase in pensions payable to prescribed pensioners otherwise than in respect of units 5 Increase in pensions payable in respect of units 6 Increase in widows' pensions 7 Application of increases to commuted pensions 8 Application of increases to suspended pensions 9 Re‑employment of pensioners 10 Act does not apply to pension in respect of a child 11 Increase in pension not payable where pensioner in receipt of pension under the Superannuation Act 12 Payment of pension increases 13 Application

The Schedules—First Schedule

Second Schedule—Deductions from officers' pensions

Third Schedule—Rate per annum of additional pension

Notes An Act to provide for Increases in certain Defence Forces Retirement Pensions

1 Short title [see Note 1]

This Act may be cited as the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits (Pension Increases) Act 1961.

2 Commencement [see Note 1]

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

3 Interpretation

(1) In this Act:

prescribed pensioner means a person to whom, immediately before the commencing date, a pension was payable by virtue of that person having been a contributor or by virtue of section seventy‑three of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948 or of that Act as amended, being a pension that commenced to be payable before the commencement of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1959.