Pensions (Increase) Act, 1964

Increase of pensions specified in paragraphs (e), (f) and (g) of Part II of Schedule.

11.—(1) A pension specified in paragraph (e), (f) or (g) of Part II of the Schedule to this Act which is payable to any person on or after the 1st day of August, 1962, shall be so increased that payments thereof in respect of any period beginning on or after the 1st day of August, 1962, are equivalent to the amount determined as provided for by subsection (2), (3) or (4) (as may be appropriate) of this section if that amount is greater than the amount of the pension that would be payable if this section had not been enacted.

(2) In the case of a pension specified in paragraph (e) of Part II of the Schedule to this Act, the amount determined referred to in subsection (1) of this section is the amount of pension that would be payable if the Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) and Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices (Amendment) Act, 1960 , had not been passed and increases under the Acts of 1950, 1956 and 1959 were disregarded, subject to an increase of that amount by 30% thereof if the pension is a ministerial pension and 37½% thereof if it is a secretarial pension.

(3) In the case of a pension specified in paragraph (f) of Part II of the Schedule to this Act, the amount determined referred to in subsection (1) of this section is half the amount of the pensioner's husband's pension as determined under subsection (2) of this section (whether or not he was paid such a pension).

(4) In the case of a pension specified in paragraph (g) of Part II of the Schedule to this Act, the amount determined referred to in subsection (1) of this section is an amount of £100, subject to an increase of that amount by 37½% thereof.