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of that sub-section.

"(6.) So much of the pension payable for a child under sub-section (4.) of this section as is additional to pension at the rate of Fifty-two pounds per annum is payable from the Fund without contribution by the Commonwealth.".

Exchange of pension rights for equivalent rights under this Act.
10. Section fifty-seven of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (1.) the words "the Australian Soldiers' Repatriation Act 1920-1921" and inserting in their stead the words "the Repatriation Act 1920-1957 or the Repatriation (Far East Strategic Reserve) Act 1956".

Increases in certain existing pensions.
11.—(1.) In this section—
"contributor" means a contributor to the Superannuation Fund;

      "prescribed increase of salary", in relation to a person, means an increase of salary wholly attributable to—
          (a) the promotion of that person to an office or position at the same salary or within the same range of salary, as the case may be, as would have been applicable to him on the fifth day of April, One thousand nine hundred and forty-seven, if he had been promoted on that day to that office or position or, where that office or position was not in existence on that day, to a corresponding office or position; or
          (b) the incremental advancement of that person within a range of salary applicable to an office or position held or occupied by him, being a range of salary that, on the fifth day of April, One thousand nine hundred and forty-seven, was applicable to that office or position or, where that office or position was not in existence on that day, to a corresponding office or position;
      "prescribed pensioner" means a person who, immediately before the commencement of this Act—
          (a) was in receipt of, or entitled to, a pension by virtue of having been a contributor; or
          (b) was in receipt of, or entitled to, a pension (otherwise than as a widow) by virtue of section nine or section fourteen of the Superannuation Act (No. 2) 1956;
      "salary" means salary as defined by sub-section (1.) of section four of the Principal Act.

(2.) Subject to this section—
       (a) the amount of pension payable to a prescribed pensioner who retired, or was retired, before the fourteenth day of May, One thousand nine hundred and forty- two, is increased by ten thirty-fifths;
       (b) the amount of pension payable to a prescribed pensioner who retired, or was retired, on or after the fourteenth day of May, One thousand nine hundred and forty-two, and before the twelfth day of November, One thousand nine hundred and forty-two, is increased by nine thirty-fifths;
       (c) the amount of pension payable to a prescribed pensioner who retired, or was retired,