This Act may be cited as the Pensions Amendment Act, 1937, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Pensions Act, 1926 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

This section applies to persons who, being resident in New Zealand on the passing of this Act, are not qualified to receive a pension under Part I of the principal Act only because they have not resided continuously in New Zealand for twenty years or upwards.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in section eight of the principal Act, every person to whom this section applies shall, if he has resided continuously in New Zealand for not less than ten years immediately preceding the date of the passing of this Act, be qualified to receive a pension under Part I of the principal Act.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in section eight of the principal Act, every person to whom this section applies but who is not qualified to receive a pension in accordance with the last preceding subsection shall, on the completion of ten years’ continuous residence in New Zealand, be qualified to receive a pension under Part I of the principal Act.

For the purposes of this section continuous residence in New Zealand shall not be deemed to have been interrupted in the following cases:—