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PART V
Improvements in Social Welfare Schemes
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Pensions for certain persons who entered insurance prior to 1953.
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16.—(1) The Principal Act is amended by the insertion after section 87 of the following section—
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“87A.—(1) Notwithstanding this Chapter and regulations made thereunder, a pension shall be payable in accordance with this section in the case of a person who—
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(a) has attained pensionable age,
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(b) was an employed contributor under the National Health Insurance Acts, 1911 to 1952, and
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(c) has paid—
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(i) contributions as an employed contributor under the National Health Insurance Acts, 1911 to 1952, or
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(ii) a combination of such contributions and qualifying contributions,
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in respect of not less than 260 contribution weeks since he or she first became insured under the National Health Insurance Acts, 1911 to 1952:
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Provided that only one pension shall be payable to or in respect of a person under this Chapter.
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(2) In taking contributions paid by or in respect of an employed contributor under the National Health Insurance Acts, 1911 to 1952, into account under this section, every two such contributions under those Acts shall be reckoned as three contributions paid in respect of three contribution weeks, with any odd contribution being reckoned as two contributions paid in respect of two contribution weeks.
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(3) A pension payable in accordance with this section shall be payable at half the rate specified in column (2) at reference 3 of Part I of the Second Schedule.
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(4) The weekly rate of old age (contributory) pension payable in accordance with this section shall be increased by—
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(a) half the amount set out in column (3) at reference 3 of Part I of the Second Schedule for any period during which the beneficiary has a qualified adult, subject to the restriction that a beneficiary shall not be entitled for the same period to an increase of pension under this subsection in respect of more than one person,
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(b) half the amount set out in column (4) at reference 3 of Part I of the Second Schedule in respect of each qualified child who normally resides with the beneficiary,
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(c) the amount set out in column (6) at reference 3 of Part I of the Second Schedule where the beneficiary is living alone, and
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(d) the amount set out in column (7) at reference 3 of Part I of the Second Schedule where the beneficiary has attained the age of 80 years.”.
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(2) This section comes into operation on 5 May 2000.
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