Old Age Pensions Act, 1932

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Calculation of means of husband or wife.

3.—In lieu of the provisions (repealed by this Act) of sub-section (2) of section 2 of the Act of 1911 as amended by sub-section (2) of section 4 of the Act of 1919 it is hereby enacted that in calculating the means of a person who is one of a married couple living together in the same house the following provisions shall have effect, that is to say:—

(a) the means of such person shall be taken to be one-half of the total means of such married couple;

(b) such person shall be deemed to be entitled to one-half of all property to which he or the other member of such married couple is entitled or to which he and such other member are jointly entitled;

(c) where one member of a married couple dies, nothing which was reckoned or would (if such deceased member had been entitled to receive an old age pension) have been reckoned as means of such deceased member for the purposes of the Old Age Pensions Acts, 1908 to 1928, shall be reckoned as means of the surviving member of such married couple for the purpose of reducing the pension of such surviving member if any payment in respect of such pension was made before the death of such deceased member or becomes payable in respect of a period previous or partly previous to such death.