Pensions (Increase) Act, 1960
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Increase of scheduled (Part II) pensions and certain allowances. |
4.—(1) (a) A pension specified at paragraph (a) or (b) of Part II of the Schedule to this Act (excepting a pension specified in paragraph (b) of this subsection) shall be increased by 7½ per cent. of the amount of the pension. | |
(b) The pension excepted from paragraph (a) of this subsection is any pension specified in subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (a) of Part II of the Schedule to this Act which was granted in respect of service which ended on or after the 1st day of November, 1948, and which is not a pension the amount of which is equal to the amount which would have been payable if the pension had been calculated under Scale (i). | ||
(2) A scheduled (Part II) pension which is not increased under subsection (1) of this section and which either is specified in paragraph (c) of Part II of the Schedule to this Act or is in respect of service which ended before the 1st day of November, 1955, shall be increased by 5 per cent. of the amount of the pension. | ||
(3) Where a scheduled (Part II) pension specified in subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (a) of Part II of the Schedule to this Act which was granted in respect of service which ended on or after the 1st day of November, 1948, is, as respects any period beginning on or after the 1st day of August, 1960, less than it would have been if it had been calculated under Scale (i) and had then been increased in accordance with subsection (1) of this section, it shall be increased, as regards that period, by the amount of the deficiency. | ||
(4) In subsections (1) and (3) of this section “Scale (i)” means— | ||
(a) in relation to a widow's ordinary pension calculated under Scale (ii) of paragraph (a) of Part II of the First Schedule to the Dublin Metropolitan Police Pensions Order, 1922, or a widow's special pension calculated under rule 7 of that paragraph—Scale (i) in that paragraph as amended by the Garda Síochána Pensions Order, 1950 ( S.I. No. 154 of 1950 ), the Act of 1956 and the Act of 1959, and | ||
(b) in relation to a widow's ordinary pension calculated under Scale (ii) in paragraph A of Part II of the First Schedule to the Garda Síochána Pensions Order, 1925 ( S.R. & O., No. 63 of 1925 ), or a widow's special pension calculated under subparagraph 2 of that paragraph—Scale (i) in that Part as amended by the Garda Síochána Pensions Order, 1950, the Act of 1956 and the Act of 1959. | ||
(5) A child's allowance calculated under rule 9 of Part II of the First Schedule to the Dublin Metropolitan Police Pensions Order, 1922, as amended by the Garda Síochána Pensions Order, 1950 ( S.I. No. 154 of 1950 ), or under sub-paragraph 1 in paragraph (c) of Part II of the First Schedule to the Garda Síochána Pensions Order, 1925 ( S.R. & O., No. 63 of 1925 ), as amended by the Garda Síochána Pensions Order, 1950, shall be increased by 7½ per cent. of the amount of the allowance if it is in respect of service which ended before the 1st day of November, 1948, and by 5 per cent. thereof if it is in respect of service which ended on or after that day and before the 1st day of November, 1955. | ||
(6) A child's allowance referred to in the foregoing subsection which is in respect of service which ended before the 1st day of November, 1952, shall, if it has not already been increased under the Act of 1956 or the Act of 1959, be increased by such amounts as the Minister for Finance considers appropriate, and the payments in respect of the increase shall be made as from the date or dates from which increases under the said Acts, if they had applied, would have been payable. |