Pensions (Increase) Act, 1964
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Increase of widows' pensions and children's allowances specified in Part II of Schedule. |
22.—(1) In this section— | |
“widow's (Scale I) pension” means a pension specified in subparagraph (i) of paragraph (a) of Part II of the Schedule to this Act; | ||
“widow's (Scale II) pension” means a pension specified in subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (a) of that Part. | ||
(2) A widow's (Scale I) pension or a widow's (Scale II) pension shall be increased to whichever of the following is the greatest; | ||
(a) the amount of the widow's (Scale I) pension which, immediately before the passing of this Act, would have been payable under the provisions then in force if no widow's (Scale II) pension were payable in the case, subject to an increase of that amount by 26% thereof; | ||
(b) in case the pension (whether a widow's (Scale I) pension or a widow's (Scale II) pension) was granted in respect of service which ended before the 1st day of November, 1955—the amount of the widow's (Scale II) pension that would be payable if the pensioner's husband was, on the date of retirement, in receipt of the remuneration of which he would have been in receipt if the rates of salary or weekly pay which first commenced to be paid on the 1st day of March, 1960, had first become payable on the day of retirement; | ||
(c) in any case—£111 per annum. | ||
(3) A child's allowance referred to in paragraph (c) of Part II of the Schedule to this Act shall be increased to the greater of the following: | ||
(a) the amount of the allowance which, immediately before the passing of this Act, would have been payable under the provisions then in force, subject to an increase of that amount by 26% thereof; | ||
(b) £34 per annum or, if the percentage increase referred to in Rule 10 of Part II of the First Schedule to the Dublin Metropolitan Police Pensions Order, 1922, as amended by Article 7 of the Garda Síochána Pensions Order, 1955 , or in subparagraph 2 of paragraph C in Part II of the First Schedule to the Garda Síochána Pensions Order, 1925 , as amended by Article 10 of the Garda Síochána Pensions Order, 1955 , is applicable, £65 per annum. | ||
(4) A child's allowance specified in paragraph (d) of Part II of the Schedule to this Act which was granted in respect of service which ended before the 1st day of March, 1960, shall be increased to the amount of such allowance as would be payable if the child's father was, on the date of retirement, in receipt of the remuneration of which he would have been in receipt if the rates of salary or weekly pay which first commenced to be paid on the 1st day of March, 1960, had first become payable on the date of retirement. | ||
(5) Where a pension or allowance payable to a widow or child of a member of the Garda Síochána or of the Dublin Metropolitan Police was calculated as a proportion of the average annual pay received by the member during a period which commenced before the 1st day of March, 1960, the pension or allowance shall be increased by recalculating it by reference to a revised average annual salary computed by reference to such rates of annual pay as the Minister determines, but not exceeding the rates which first commenced to be paid on the 1st day of March, 1960, except in so far as a higher rate or rates of annual pay was or were reckoned in respect of any period of the member's service after that day in computing the pension to be increased. | ||
(6) A pension specified in paragraph (b) of Part II of the Schedule to this Act shall be increased to— | ||
(a) an amount of £111, or | ||
(b) the amount which, immediately before the passing of this Act, would have been payable under the provisions then in force, subject to an increase of that amount by 26% thereof, | ||
whichever is the greater. |