Pensions (Increase) Act, 1960

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Special provisions for certain pensions.

7.—(1) Where a pension to which this subsection applies—

(a) was granted in respect of service which ended on or after the relevant day,

(b) was computed in whole or in part by reference to the average annual amount of salary or weekly rate of pay over a period which commenced not less than three months before the relevant day,

(c) would have been increased under subsection (1) of section 3 of this Act if the service had ended before the relevant day, and

(d) is a pension to be increased under subsection (2) of section 3 of this Act,

the following provisions shall have effect:

(i) the pension shall be increased by one-twelfth (or, in the case of a pension granted by the former National Health Insurance Society to a person under the superannuation arrangements approved of by that Society, one-twentieth) of 7½ per cent. of the amount of the pension in respect of every period of three months before the relevant day included in the period referred to in paragraph (b) of this subsection, and

(ii) the increase of 5 per cent. in the amount of the pension under subsection (2) of section 3 of this Act shall be reduced by one-twelfth (or, in the case of a pension granted by the former National Health Insurance Society to a person under the superannuation arrangements approved of by that Society, one-twentieth) in respect of every such period of three months.

(2) In subsection (1) of this section—

“pension to which this subsection applies” means—

(a) a pension granted under the National School Teachers' Superannuation Schemes, 1934 to 1958,

(b) a pension granted under the Secondary Teachers' Superannuation Schemes, 1929 to 1956,

(c) a pension granted under the Garda Síochána Pensions Orders, 1925 to 1957, or the Dublin Metropolitan Police Pensions Orders, 1922 and 1924, or those orders as varied by the Garda Síochána Pensions Orders, 1925 to 1957,

(d) an annual allowance granted under the Superannuation Acts, 1834 to 1956,

(e) a special annual allowance granted by way of compensation under section 7 of the Superannuation Act, 1859, or section 6 of the Superannuation Act, 1909, or

(f) a pension granted by the former National Health Insurance Society to a person under the superannuation arrangements approved of by that Society;

“relevant day” means—

(a) in case the relevant pension is a pension granted under the National School Teachers' Superannuation Schemes, 1934 to 1958, or the Secondary Teachers' Superannuation Schemes, 1929 to 1956—the 1st day of January, 1950,

(b) in case the relevant pension is a pension granted by the former National Health Insurance Society to a person under the superannuation arrangements approved of by that Society—the 1st day of February, 1949, and

(c) in any other case—the 1st day of November, 1948.

(3) Where a pension—

(a) was granted in respect of service which ended on or after the 1st day of November, 1955,

(b) was computed in whole or in part by reference to the average annual amount of salary or weekly rate of pay over a period which commenced not less than three months before the 1st day of November, 1955,

(c) would have been increased under section 3 of this Act if the service had ended before the 1st day of November, 1955, and

(d) is not a pension to be increased under any other provision of this Act,

the pension shall be increased by one-twelfth of 5 per cent. of the amount of the pension in respect of every period of three months before the 1st day of November, 1955, included in the period referred to in paragraph (b) of this subsection.

(4) Any reference in this section to salary shall be construed—

(a) where the relevant pension is a pension under the National School Teachers' Superannuation Schemes, 1934 to 1958, as a reference to the scale salary, within the meaning of those Schemes, and

(b) where the relevant pension is a pension under the Secondary Teachers' Superannuation Schemes, 1929 to 1956, as a reference to the standard salary less any special increment, within the meaning of those Schemes.