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DEFENCE FORCES RETIREMENT BENEFITS (PENSION INCREASES) ACT 1961 - SECT 3

Interpretation

(1)
In this Act:

"prescribed pensioner" means a person to whom, immediately before the commencing date, a pension was payable by virtue of that person having been a contributor or by virtue of section seventy-three of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948 or of that Act as amended, being a pension that commenced to be payable before the commencement of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1959 .

"the commencing date" means the date of commencement of this Act.

(2)
Expressions used in this Act that are also used in the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-1958 have in this Act, unless the contrary intention appears, the same respective meanings as they have in that Act.


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