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referred to in paragraph (a), (c) or (d);";
     (c) by omitting from the definition of "prescribed year" in sub-section (1) ", and each" and substituting "or a"; and
     (d) by inserting in sub-section (2) "or publishes" after "has published".

Increases in pensions
58. Section 148 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 under this Act, a pension to which this Part applies 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 certain pensions
59. Section 150 of the Principal Act is amended—
     (a) by omitting sub-sections (1), (2) and (3) and substituting the following sub-sections:
     "(1) Where a person to whom pension has become payable (whether or not it has become payable to the person by virtue of section 136) would, but for this section, be entitled to an increase in the rate at which the pension was payable to or in respect of the person immediately before the commencement of a prescribed year and—
         (a) in a case where the pension is age retirement pension, early retirement pension or invalidity pension—it became payable to the person during the year (in this section referred to as the 'preceding year') immediately preceding the prescribed year;
         (b) in a case where the pension is spouse's pension—
            (i) if, immediately before the death of the person by reason of whose death the spouse's pension became payable, a pension (other than a partial invalidity pension) was not payable to the deceased person—the spouse's pension became payable during the preceding year; or
            (ii) if, immediately before the death of the person by reason of whose death the spouse's pension became payable, a pension (other than a partial invalidity pension) was payable to the deceased person—the pension that was payable to the deceased person became payable during the preceding year; or
         (c) in a case where the pension is orphan pension—
            (i) if, immediately before the death of the person by reason of whose death the orphan pension became payable, a pension