Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

DEFENCE FORCES RETIREMENT BENEFITS (PENSION INCREASES) ACT 1961 - SECT 9

Where, immediately before the commencing date, subsection (1) or (3) of section sixty-nine of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-1959 applied to a pension payable to a person, the pension payable to that person at that time shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to be the pension that would have been payable to that person if that subsection had not applied to the pension, but any increase in a pension to which a person is entitled under this section is subject to the operation of that section and, for the purposes of that section in its application to that pension, the increased pension shall be deemed to be payable under that Act.