Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

DEFENCE FORCES RETIREMENT BENEFITS (PENSION INCREASES) ACT 1973 - SECT 9

Where, on or after 1st July, 1973, a person to whom pension is payable under section 52 of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-1973 and who is entitled to an increase in the rate of his pension under section 5 of this Act is reclassified under section 53 of that Act, the rate at which pension is payable to him on and after the date from which the reclassification has effect is the rate at which pension would have been payable to him on 1st July, 1973, if he had been so reclassified with effect on and from the day immediately preceding 1st July, 1973.