Army Pensions Act, 1957

Increase of certain disablement pensions.

29.—Where a person discharged from the forces before the 2nd day of April, 1950, is in receipt of a disablement pension the amount of which, either alone or when aggregated with any Defence Forces pension payable to such person, exceeds £450 per annum, then, the disablement pension shall be increased to whichever of the following amounts is the lesser—

(a) the amount of the disablement pension increased by six per cent.,

(b) the amount of the disablement pension which would be payable to such person if he had been discharged from the forces on the 2nd day of November, 1952, and his rank and service in that rank on that date were the same as those on the date of his actual discharge and the scale of pension applicable to him were the appropriate scale contained in the Tables to subsection (2) of section 4 of this Act.