Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

DEFENCE FORCES RETIREMENT BENEFITS (PENSION INCREASES) ACT 1961 - SECT 7

Where a prescribed pensioner who commuted portion of his pension under section seventy-four of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948 or of that Act as amended is entitled to an increase in the pension under this Act, that increase shall, in lieu of the increase to which, but for this section, he would have been entitled, be an increase that bears to the increase to which he would have been so entitled the same proportion as the rate at which pension was payable to him immediately before the commencing date bears to the rate at which pension would have been payable to him immediately before the commencing date if he had not commuted any portion of his pension.