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Pensions (Increase) Act, 1920
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SCHEDULE

Sections 1 and 3 .

Part I.

Limitations on the Amount of Increase of Pensions.

1. Where the existing pension does not exceed 50l. a year -

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it may be increased by 50 per cent.

Where the existing pension exceeds 50l, a year, but does not exceed 100l, a year in the case of an unmarried person or 130l a year in the case of a married person - ----

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it may be increased by 40 per cent.

Where the existing pension exceeds 100l. a year, but is less than 150l. a year in the case of an unmarried person, or exceeds 130l. a year but is less than 200l. a year in the case of a married person - - - -

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it may be increased by 30 per cent.

Provided that—.

(i) if the maount to which a pension may be increased under the above scale is less than the amount to which a smaller pension might be increased, it may be increased to the later amount;

(ii) no pension shall be increased by an amount greater than is sufficient to bring the total means of the pensioner, including the increased pension up to 150l. a year in the case of an unmarried person, or 200l. a year in the case of a married person.

2. Where a pensioner is in receipt of two pensions to which section one of this Act applies or of one such pension and of a pension as a naval or military pensioner, such pensions shall, for the purposes of the above scale, be treated as one pension of an amount equal to the aggregate amount of the two pensions.

3. Where before the passing of this Act a pension has, since the grant thereof, been increased, the increase authorised under this Act amount by which it may increased under this Act shall be reduced by the amount of the increase so previously granted.

Part II.

Additional Limitations on Increase of Pensions granted after the 4th Day of August 1914.

3. Where an existing pension granted on or after the 4th day of August 1914, is larger than a pre-war pension by reason of an improvement in the pension scale or an increase in the pensionable emoluments made since that date, the pension shall not be increased under this Act by an amount greater than is sufficient to make the increased pension equal to the amount to which the pre-war pension might have been increased under Part I. of this Schedule.