Parliamentary Retiring Allowances (Increases) Act 1967

No. 92 of 1967

An Act to provide for Increases in certain Parliamentary Retiring Allowances

[Assented to 8 November 1967]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the Parliamentary Retiring Allowances (Increases) Act 1967.

2 Commencement

This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

3 Increases in rates of certain pensions

(1) A person:

(a) who was, immediately before the commencement of this Act, entitled to a pension in accordance with the Parliamentary Retiring Allowances Act 1948‑1955; or

(b) who was, immediately before the commencement of this Act, entitled to a pension in accordance with the Parliamentary Retiring Allowances Act 1948‑1959 and in relation to whom, or, in the case of a person to whom pension was payable as a widow, in relation to whose deceased husband, section 18 of the Parliamentary Retiring Allowances Act 1964‑1966 applied,

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
$	$
30.00	18.16
33.00	23.89
36.00	21.79
42.00	21.79

(2) Where a male person the rate of whose pension is increased under the last preceding subsection dies, any pension to which his widow becomes entitled in accordance with paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of section 19 of the Parliamentary Retiring Allowances Act 1948‑1955 or of the Parliamentary Retiring Allowances Act 1948‑1959, as the case may be, shall be at the rate of Forty‑eight dollars sixteen cents a week.

4 Increases in rates of pensions in relation to certain persons who were members of the twenty‑fourth Parliament

(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 1948‑1959 and in relation to whose pension a provision of section 17 of the Parliamentary Retiring Allowances Act 1964‑1966 applied immediately before that date is entitled to an increase in the rate of that pension in accordance with the following table:

Annual amount of pension	Annual amount of increase in pension
$	$
2,291.67	437.50
2,750.00	525.00
3,062.00	525.00

(2) Where a male person the rate of whose pension is increased under the last preceding subsection dies, any pension to which his widow becomes entitled in accordance with paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of section 19 of the Parliamentary Retiring Allowances Act 1948‑1959 shall be at the rate of Two thousand seven hundred and twenty‑nine dollars seventeen cents.

5 Commonwealth to reimburse Fund for increases in pensions

Where an amount of pension paid to a person (including a pension that becomes payable to the widow of a person who dies after the commencement of this Act) is, by virtue of this Act, greater than it would otherwise be:

(a) the amount by which the amount of pension so paid is greater (in this section referred to as the amount of the increase) shall, for the purposes of paragraph (a) of section 14 of the Parliamentary Retiring Allowances Act 1948‑1966, be deemed not to have been paid;

(b) the Commonwealth shall pay to the Parliamentary Retiring Allowances Fund an amount equal to the amount of the increase; and

(c) the Consolidated Revenue Fund is, to the necessary extent, appropriated for the purposes of the last preceding paragraph.

6 Application of Parliamentary Retiring Allowances Act 1948‑1966

(1) The reference in subsection (2) of section 9 of the Parliamentary Retiring Allowances Act 1948‑1966 to moneys paid into the Parliamentary Retiring Allowances Fund by the Commonwealth in pursuance of that Act shall be read as including a reference to moneys paid into that Fund by the Commonwealth in pursuance of this Act.

(2) The reference in subsection (3) of section 9 of the Parliamentary Retiring Allowances Act 1948‑1966 to pensions and other benefits provided by that Act shall be read as including a reference to increases in pensions payable by virtue of this Act.

(3) The reference in section 9B of the Parliamentary Retiring Allowances Act 1948‑1966 to payments by the Commonwealth to the Parliamentary Retiring Allowances Fund under that Act shall be read as including a reference to payments by the Commonwealth to that Fund under this Act.

7 Application

Increases in pensions payable by virtue of subsection (1) of section 3 and subsection (1) of section 4 of this Act have effect from and including the first fortnightly payment of pensions made after the date of commencement of this Act.