New South Wales Consolidated Acts

NEW SOUTH WALES RETIREMENT BENEFITS ACT 1972 - SECT 31C

31C Adjustment of pensions: general cases

(1) Subject to this Act, where there is an adjustment percentage for a year (in this section referred to as "the particular year"), the pension payable on the adjustment date for that year to a person to whom this section applies is hereby adjusted, on and from that adjustment date, by that percentage.

(2) This section applies to:

(a) a person who last became a pensioner on or before 1 July in the particular year, and

(b) a person who was the spouse of a pensioner immediately before the pensioner’s death, where the pensioner last became a pensioner on or before 1 July in the particular year and died before the adjustment date for that year.

(3) A reference in subsection (1) to a pension payable to a person includes a reference to the pension that would have been payable to him had section 59A not been enacted.