Old Age Pension Act, 1924
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First reduction of rates of pensions. |
3.—(1) Every old age pension which has or shall have commenced to accrue before the first appointed day and is, immediately before that day payable at a rate exceeding one shilling per week, and is payable to a person who, on the first appointed day, shall not have attained the age of eighty years, shall, on and after the first appointed day and until the second appointed day, be payable at the rate set forth in the Second Schedule to this Act in lieu of the rate set forth in the First Schedule to the Act of 1919. | |
(2) Every old age pension which has or shall have commenced to accrue before the first appointed day and is, immediately before that day, payable at the rate of one shilling per week to a person who, on the first appointed day, shall not have attained the age of eighty years, shall continue to be payable and paid at that rate until the second appointed day or until the previous death or disqualification of the person entitled to receive the same, and shall then cease. | ||
(3) If any person whose pension is reduced or terminated in pursuance of a ruling by the pension officer under this section claims that by reason of his age his pension should not have been liable to be so reduced or terminated, such person may appeal against such reduction or termination, as the case may be, to the local pension committee, who shall consider the matter and give their decision thereon in the same manner and subject to the like appeal to the central pension authority as if the ruling of the pension officer under this section was the report of a pension officer on a claim referred to him for report and inquiry under Section 7 of the Act of 1908. | ||
(4) An appeal against the ruling of a pension officer reducing or terminating a pension under this section shall not suspend the operation of such ruling, but if the appeal is finally determined in favour of the pensioner, he shall be entitled to receive all sums which would have been payable to him if the ruling of the pension officer had been in accordance with such final determination. |