Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1961

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

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

(a) a widow's (non-contributory) pension or an orphan's (non-contributory) pension under the Acts, is in course of payment to or in respect of a person,

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

(c) an increase of the statutory pension occurs on or after the 1st day of August, 1961,

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