Pensions (Increase) Act, 1920

Power to increase certain pensions.

8 Edw. 7. c. 63.

pension increase 34/1923,

42 & 43 Vict. c. 74.

1.(1) The pensions payable to pensioners to whom this section applies, and in whose case the conditions laid down by this Act (in this Act referred to as statutory conditions) are fulfilled, may, so long as those conditions continue to be fulfilled, be increased by the pension authority by an amount not exceeding the limits laid down in the Schedule to this ACt.

(2) The pensioners to whom this section applies are pensioners who at the date of the passing of this Act are in receipt of pensions granted before the fourth day of August nineteen hundred and fourteen, and, subject to the limitations laid down in Part II. of the Schedule to this Act, pensions granted on and after that date—

(a) under the Superannuation Acts, 1834 to 1914;

(b) under the Elementary School Teachers’ (Superannuation) Acts, 1898 to 1912, or under the code of regulations for public elementary schools, or under the Education (Scotland) Act, 1908;

(c) under the National School Teachers’ (Ireland) Act, 1879;

(d) under the enactments relating to the pay and pensions of the Royal Irish Constabulary and the Dublin Metropolitan Police.

(3) The increase shal have effect as from the first day of April nineteen hundred and twenty.