Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) A person who was, immediately before the date of commencement of this Act, entitled to a pension in accordance with the Parliamentary Retiring Allowances Act 1948-1955 is entitled to an increase in the rate of that pension in accordance with the following table:
Weekly amount of pension | Weekly amount of increase in pension |
$ | $ |
20 | 10 |
24 | 12 |
30 | 12 |
(2) Where a person, being a male, whose pension is increased under the last preceding sub-section, dies, any pension to which his widow becomes entitled in accordance with sub-section (2) of section nineteen of the Parliamentary Retiring Allowances Act 1948-1955 shall be at the rate of Thirty dollars per week.