Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C1971A00075:section:5
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C1971A00075
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 5
Character Range: 4082–5386

5  Increases in rates of pensions of persons who died or retired on or after 1 November 1964 and before 1 December 1968
[see Note 2]
 (1) A person who was, immediately before the commencement of this Act, entitled to a pension in accordance with section 18 or section 19 of the Parliamentary Retiring Allowances Act 1948‑1968, being a pension to which the person became entitled before the first day of December, One thousand nine hundred and sixty‑eight, or to which the person became entitled on or after that date by reason of the death of a person who was in receipt of a pension immediately before that date, is entitled to an increase in the rate of that pension in accordance with the following table:

                          Annual amount of increase in pension
Annual amount of pension
$                         $
2,916.67                  729.16
3,500.00                  875.00
3,812.86                  875.00

 (2) Where a male person the rate of whose pension is increased under the last preceding subsection dies, any pension to which his widow becomes entitled in accordance with paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of section 19 of the Parliamentary Retiring Allowances Act 1948‑1968 shall be at the rate of Three thousand six hundred and forty‑five dollars eighty‑three cents a year.