Pensions Supplementation Act Amendment Act 1955 (WA)

1955.] Pensions Supplementation. [No. 21.

PENSIONS SUPPLEMENTATION.

4° Elizabeth II., No. XXI.

No. 21 of 1955.

AN ACT to amend the Pensions Supplementation

Act, 1953.

[Assented to 11th November, 1955.]

BE it enacted, by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Pensions Zif=s_

Supplementation Act Amendment Act, 1955, and 1=1:1 shall come into operation on a day to be fixed by proclamation.

(2) In this Act the Pensions Supplementation

Act, 1953,

Act No. 78 of 1953,

is referred to as the principal Act.

No. 21.] Pensions Supplementation. [1955.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Pensions Supplementation Act, 1953- 1955.

S. 4

amended. 2. Section four of the principal Act is amended

by substituting for the word, "fifty-two" in line six,

the word, "seventy-eight".

S.5

Section five of the principal Act is amended

by substituting for Column 2 of the Scale the

following:—

amended. 3.

Column 2.

Rate of Supple-

mentation.

£52 per annum.

1/6th of the annual rate

plus

£26 per annum. £78 per annum.

The amount necessary to produce an

annual rate of

£526 or an

annual rate of £52, whichever is the greater. £52 per annum.

;S. 6

Section six of the principal Act is amended

by substituting for the word, "twenty-six" in line

five, the word, "fifty-two".

.amended. 4.

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.amended.	5. Section seven of the principal Act is amended by substituting for the word, "twenty-six" in line eight of subsection (1), the word, "fifty-two".
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amended.	6. Section nine of the principal Act is amended by adding after the word, "re-employed" being the last word in subsection (2), the passage, ", unless the Board r1 P f ermines otherwise".