Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1960

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Parts of increase of certain pensions not to be reckoned as means for the purposes of the Acts.

9.—Notwithstanding anything contained in the rules in the Seventh Schedule to the Act of 1952, where—

(a) a pension is in course of payment to a person or to the spouse of the person or to both of them,

(b) a pension or allowance provided by or under statute (other than the Acts) or payable out of moneys administered by another government (in this section referred to as the statutory pension) is in course of payment to the person or the spouse of the person or to both of them, and

(c) an increase of the statutory pension or pensions occurs on or after the 1st day of August, 1960,

then, in calculating the means of the person or of the spouse of the person or of both of them for the purposes of the Acts, any of the increase of the statutory pension or pensions which, if it were reckoned as means, would result in a reduction in the amount of the pension or combined pensions, as the case may be, which would be greater than the amount of the increase, shall not be reckoned as means.