Increasing rates of economic pensions for unmarried persons in certain cases.

Increasing rates of war veterans’ allowances in certain cases.

Personal earnings from domestic or nursing service.

Superannuation and National Provident Fund pensions.

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War Pensions Amendment Act (No 2) 1955

Public Act		1955 No 35
Date of assent		20 October 1955

	Title
1	Short Title and commencement.
2	Increasing rates of economic pensions for unmarried persons in certain cases.
		“Part IV General
3	Increasing rates of war veterans’ allowances in certain cases.
4	Personal earnings from domestic or nursing service.
5	Superannuation and National Provident Fund pensions.

An Act to amend the War Pensions Act 1954.

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1 Short Title and commencement.

1954, No. 54

(1)

This Act may be cited as the War Pensions Amendment Act (No. 2) 1955, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the War Pensions Act 1954 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

(2)

This Act shall be deemed to have come into force on the first day of August, nineteen hundred and fifty-five.

2 Increasing rates of economic pensions for unmarried persons in certain cases.

1955, No. 10

The Sixth Schedule to the principal Act (as substituted by the War Pensions Amendment Act 1955) is hereby amended by adding the following Part:

“Part IV General

“5

The rates specified in paragraphs 2, 3, and 4 of this Schedule shall be increased by 5s. per week in any case where the claimant or pensioner is an unmarried person, or, being married, is, in the opinion of a War Pensions Board, living apart from his wife or her husband, as the case may be:

“Provided that a War Pensions Board may in its discretion refuse to increase any economic pension under this paragraph in any case where in the opinion of the Board the claimant or pensioner is sharing household expenses with any other person.”

3 Increasing rates of war veterans’ allowances in certain cases.

1955, No. 10

(1)

The Seventh Schedule to the principal Act (as substituted by the War Pensions Amendment Act 1955) is hereby amended by omitting from paragraph three the expression “£338”, and substituting the expression “£351”.

(2)

The said Seventh Schedule is hereby further amended by adding the following paragraph:

“4

General—

“The rates specified in paragraph 1 of this Schedule shall be increased by £13 per annum in any case where the person claiming or in receipt of the allowance is an unmarried person:

“Provided that a War Pensions Board may in its discretion refuse to increase any allowance under this paragraph in any case where in the opinion of the Board the person claiming or in receipt of the allowance is sharing household expenses with any other person.”

4 Personal earnings from domestic or nursing service.

The principal Act is hereby amended by repealing section seventy-nine, and substituting the following section:

“79

In computing the rate of any pension or allowance under this Act, a War Pensions Board may, in its discretion, take no account of the personal earnings of any woman from domestic or nursing service in any private home, or in a hospital, home for the care of the aged, or charitable institution approved by the Board for the purposes of this section, up to the appropriate rate specified in the Eighth Schedule to this Act.”

5 Superannuation and National Provident Fund pensions.

1947, No. 57 1950, No. 55

The principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after section seventy-nine, the following section:

“79a

In computing the rate of any pension or allowance under this Act, a War Pensions Board shall take no account of any money up to twenty-six pounds a year received after the thirtieth day of November, nineteen hundred and fifty-five, by any person who has attained the age of sixty-five years by way of retiring allowance or annuity under Part II or Part III or Part IV of the Superannuation Act 1947, or by way of pension or allowance under Part II or Part III of the National Provident Fund Act 1950.”

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