Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A00163:section:17
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A00163
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 17
Character Range: 15806–16832

17  Amount of increase in certain pension benefits

 (1) Where, immediately before 1 July 1974, a pension benefit was payable to a person:
 (a) being a pension benefit that became payable to the person before 1 July 1973; or
 (b) being a pension benefit that became payable, on or after 1 July 1973, to the person as a widow, or as an eligible child, by reason of the death of a member of the scheme who retired before 1 July 1973;
this section applies to the person.

 (2) The increase provided for by section 16 in the annual amount of the pension benefit payable to a person to whom this section applies is the prescribed percentage of 71.43 per centum of the annual amount of the pension benefit payable immediately before 1 July 1974 or, if the pension benefit is a child's pension, so much of the annual amount of that benefit so payable as is referred to as additional pension in whichever of subsections 42(2), 42(3), 43(2) or 43(3) of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act 1973‑1974 as is applicable.