Pensions (Increase) Act 1954
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1954 c. 25 |
| Year | 1954 |
Pensions (Increase) Act, 1954
(2 & 3 Eliz. 2) CHAPTER 25
An Act to amend section two of the Pensions (Increase) Act, 1944, by abolishing the limit of pension up to which increases may be made under that section and substituting ten per cent. for the scale of increases authorised by that section; and for purposes connected therewith.
Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Amendment of s. 2 \(1) of Pensions \(Increase) Act, 1944.
(1) In subsection (1) of section two of the Pensions (Increase) Act, 1944 (which, as amended by subsection (3) of section one of the Pensions (Increase) Act, 1947, of pensions payable under the Superannuation Acts up to a limit of seven hundred and eighty-seven pounds ten shillings a year) there shall be substituted, for the words from ‘in accordance with the following scale’ to ‘seven hundred and eighty-seven pounds ten shillings a year’, the words ‘by ten per cent.’.
(2) Subsection (3) of section one of the said Act of 1947 is hereby repealed.
(3) In relation to a pension which is, or would but for this subsection be, increased by virtue of the foregoing provisions of this section, subsection (2) of section three of the said Act of 1944 (under which an increase under that Act is reduced or excluded where the amount of a pension has been increased by reason of an addition by way of war bonus or similar allowance to the emoluments of any office or employment in respect of which or on retirement from which the pension is payable) shall have effect as if the references therein to such an addition included any excess of the said emoluments over what they were on the third day of September, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, or what in the opinion of the Treasury they would have been on that day had the office or employment then existed; so, however, that no pension shall by virtue of this subsection be less than it would have been if this Act had not been passed.
(4) Where any pension is increased by virtue of the foregoing provisions of this section those provisions shall apply to any instalment of that pension...
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