[1 Present increases]
Pensions (Increase) Act 1971 (1971 c 56) | Legislation

Part I General Provisions

[1  Present increases]

[(1)     Subject to the provisions of this Act, the annual rate of an official pension may, if any qualifying condition is satisfied or the pension is a widow's pension, be increased by the pension authority in respect of any period or after 1st December 1978, as follows:—

(a)     a pension beginning before the year 1969 may be increased by the amount necessary to bring the rate up to the 1969 standard, that is to say, the rate arrived at by applying to the basic rate of pension the multiplier given in Schedule 1 for the year in which the pension began, and by a further 199.5462 per cent of the rate so increased;

(b)     a pension beginning on or before 1st April 1969 but not earlier than that year may be increased by 199.5462 per cent of the basic rate;

(c)     a pension beginning in the six months

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