DEFENCE LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT (No. 2) 1990 No. 21 of 1991 - SECT 13 Increases in children's pensions

DEFENCE LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT (No. 2) 1990 No. 21 of 1991 - SECT 13

13. Section 84C of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end the
following subsections:

"(2) If the all groups consumer price index number for the weighted average of
the 8 capital cities published by the Statistician in respect of the March
quarter of the year immediately preceding a prescribed year exceeds the
highest all groups consumer price index number for the weighted average of the
8 capital cities published by the Statistician in respect of the March quarter
of any earlier year, not being a year earlier than the year that commenced on
1 July 1985:

   (a)  paragraphs 55 (1) (b) and 57 (1) (b) have effect as if, for the amount
        of $312, there were substituted; and

   (b)  subsections 55 (2), 57 (4) and 58 (1) have effect as if, for the
        amount of $5,000, there were substituted; on the first day of that
        prescribed year, an amount calculated by adding to the existing amount
        the prescribed percentage of the existing amount.

"(3) For the purposes of the application of subsection (2) to a provision
specified in that subsection, the existing amount is:

   (a)  in relation to the prescribed year that commenced on 1 July 1990:

        (i)    in the case of paragraph 55 (1) (b) or 57 (1) (b) - $312; and

        (ii)   in the case of subsection 55 (2), 57 (4) or 58 (1) - $5,000;

   (b)  in relation to any subsequent prescribed year - the amount that,
        because of a previous application or previous applications of
        subsection (2), is taken to have been substituted, or last
        substituted, for the amount specified in that provision.".