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or wife of the person, became so payable on or before 16 June in the immediately preceding year, the amount of the increase is so much only of the amount that, but for this section, would have been the amount of the increase as bears to that last-mentioned amount the same proportion as the number of months in the period that commenced on the day next following the day on which the retirement or death took place, or the period that commenced on the day on which the pension became payable, and ended on 30 June in the immediately preceding year bears to 12.".

Date of effect of increase
13. Section 119zo of the Principal Act is amended by inserting ", or is, under sub-section (4) of section 119zg or sub-section (4) of section 119zh, to be treated as having been," after "was".

Interpretation
14. Section 120 of the Principal Act is amended—
     (a) by omitting the definition of "pension" in sub-section (1) and substituting the following definition—
         "'pension' includes a pension payable by virtue of section 9 or 14 of the Superannuation Act (No. 2) 1956 or section 10 of the Superannuation (Pension Increases) Act 1971, but does not include—
             (a) a pension that became payable under section 71 of this Act, not being such a pension for which contributions were made to a State Fund as defined by section 101 of this Act; or
             (b) a pension payable (whether under section 71 of this Act or otherwise) in respect of a child;";
     (b) by omitting from the definition of "prescribed year" in sub-section (1) ", and each" and substituting "or a"; and
     (c) by inserting in sub-section (2) "or publishes" after "has published".

Increases in pensions
15. Section 121 of the Principal Act is amended—
     (a) by omitting from sub-section (3) "the prescribed percentage is a percentage ascertained in accordance with the formula—
100 (A-B)
B

     where—" and substituting "the prescribed percentage, in relation to a prescribed year, is the percentage that represents A—B expressed as a percentage of B, where—"; and
     (b) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-section:
     "(4) Where, by reason of the death on 30 June in the year immediately preceding a prescribed year of a person in receipt of a pension, a pension becomes payable on the following day to another person, that other person shall be entitled to such an increase in the rate of that pension as the person would have been entitled to had the pension become payable to the person on that 30 June.".

Adjustment of increase in case of persons who become entitled to pension after previous increase
16. Section 122 of the Principal Act is