Pensions (Increase) Act, 1950

Increase of scheduled (Part I) pension.

3.—(1) A scheduled (Part I) pension shall be increased—

(a) in the case of a restricted pension, to the lesser amount, and

(b) in any other case, by the appropriate sum.

(2) In subsection (1) of this section—

the expression “restricted pension” means a scheduled (Part I) pension—

(i) which is specified in paragraph (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (g), (h) or (i) of Part I of the Schedule to this Act, and

(ii) which, if increased by the appropriate sum, would be greater than the pension payable to or in respect of a person of equivalent status and service whose service ended on the 31st day of October, 1946;

the expression “the lesser amount” means—

(a) in the case of a pension specified in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of Part I of the Schedule to this Act granted to an unmarried man, the amount which would have been determined under paragraph (b) of this definition if the pensioner had been married, and

(b) in any other case, the amount of the pension, payable to or in respect of a person of equivalent status and service, which is referred to in paragraph (ii) of the foregoing definition.

(3) In the case of a pension payable to or in respect of a person who was a member of the Dublin Metropolitan Police and whose service therein ended before the commencement of the Police Forces Amalgamation Act, 1925 (No. 7 of 1925), a reference in subsection (2) of this section to a person of equivalent status and service shall be construed as a reference to a person who was a member of the Garda Síochána of equivalent status and service.

(4) Where a pension increased under this section includes an element attributable to any emergency bonus, that element shall not be payable in respect of any period beginning on or after the 1st day of April, 1949.