Social Security Amendment Act 1962
Social Security Amendment Act 1962
Social Security Amendment Act 1962
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Social Security Amendment Act 1962
Public Act |
1962 No 22 |
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Date of assent |
23 November 1962 |
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Contents
An Act to amend the Social Security Act 1938
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
(1)
This Act may be cited as the Social Security Amendment Act 1962, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Social Security Act 1938 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).
(2)
This Act shall be deemed to have come into force on the eighteenth day of July, nineteen hundred and sixty-two.
Superannuation Benefits
2 Increasing rates of superannuation benefits
Section 13 of the principal Act (as substituted by section 15 of the Social Security Amendment Act 1960) is hereby amended by omitting from subsection (1) the words “two hundred and twenty-one pounds”
, and substituting the words “two hundred and twenty-seven pounds ten shillings”
.
Age Benefits
3 Increasing rate of age benefits
(1)
Section 16 of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from subsection (1) the words “two hundred and twenty-one pounds”
, and substituting the words “two hundred and twenty-seven pounds ten shillings”
.
(2)
Section 3 of the Social Security Amendment Act 1960 is hereby repealed.
4 Increasing allowable income and rate of age benefit of married man
(1)
Section 17 of the principal Act is hereby amended—
(a)
By omitting from paragraph (b) of subsection (2) the words “three hundred and seventy-seven pounds”
, and substituting the words “three hundred and eighty-three pounds ten shillings”
:
(b)
By omitting from the first proviso to the same paragraph (as substituted by section 5 of the Social Security Amendment Act 1954) the words “two hundred and twenty-one pounds”
, and substituting the words “two hundred and twenty-seven pounds ten shillings”
.
(2)
Section 4 of the Social Security Amendment Act 1960 and so much of the Second Schedule to that Act as relates to paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of section 17 of the principal Act are hereby repealed.
5 Allowable income of South African War veterans
(1)
Section 19 of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from the proviso the words “three hundred and seventy-seven pounds”
, and substituting the words “three hundred and eighty-three pounds ten shillings”
.
(2)
The Second Schedule to the Social Security Amendment Act 1960 is hereby amended by repealing so much thereof as relates to section 19 of the principal Act.
Widows’ Benefits
6 Increasing rates of widows’ benefits
(1)
Section 23 of the principal Act (as substituted by section 2 of the Social Security Amendment Act 1946) is hereby amended—
(a)
By omitting from paragraph (a) the words “two hundred and twenty-one pounds”
, and substituting the words “two hundred and twenty-seven pounds ten shillings”
:
(b)
By omitting from subparagraph (i) of paragraph (b) (as substituted by section 7 of the Social Security Amendment Act 1957) the words “one hundred and fifty-six pounds”
, and substituting the words “one hundred and sixty-two pounds ten shillings”
.
(2)
Section 5 of the Social Security Amendment Act 1960 is hereby repealed.
Orphans’ Benefits
7 Increasing rate of orphans’ benefits
(1)
Section 27 of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from subsection (1) the words “one hundred and seventeen pounds”
, and substituting the words “one hundred and twenty-three pounds ten shillings”
.
(2)
Section 9 of the Social Security Amendment Act 1958 is hereby repealed.
Invalids’ Benefits
8 Increasing rates of invalids’ benefits
(1)
Section 34 of the principal Act is hereby amended—
(a)
By omitting from paragraph (a) of subsection (1) the words “two hundred and twenty-one pounds”
wherever they occur, and substituting in each case the words “two hundred and twenty-seven pounds ten shillings”
:
(b)
By omitting from paragraph (b) of the same subsection the words “one hundred and eighty-two pounds”
, and substituting the words “one hundred and eighty-eight pounds ten shillings”
:
(c)
By omitting from paragraph (c) of the same subsection the words “two hundred and twenty-one pounds”
, and substituting the words “two hundred and twenty-seven pounds ten shillings”
:
(d)
By omitting from paragraph (b) of subsection (2) (as substituted by section 16 of the Social Security Amendment Act 1960) the words “three hundred and seventy-seven pounds”
, and substituting the words “three hundred and eighty-three pounds ten shillings”
:
(e)
By omitting from the proviso to paragraph (b) of the same subsection the words “two hundred and twenty-one pounds”
, and substituting the words “two hundred and twenty-seven pounds ten shillings”
:
(f)
By omitting from the same proviso the words “thirteen pounds ten shillings”
, and substituting the words “thirteen pounds fifteen shillings”
.
(2)
Section 6 of the Social Security Amendment Act 1960 is hereby repealed.
9 Allowable income for subsidy on earnings of blind beneficiary
(1)
Section 35 of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from the proviso the words “five hundred and thirty-three pounds”
, and substituting the words “five hundred and thirty-nine pounds ten shillings”
.
(2)
The Second Schedule to the Social Security Amendment Act 1960 is hereby amended by repealing so much thereof as relates to section 35 of the principal Act.
Miners’ Benefits
10 Increasing rates of miners’ benefits
(1)
Section 41 of the principal Act (as substituted by section 21 of the Social Security Amendment Act 1945) is hereby amended by omitting the words “two hundred and twenty-one pounds”
, wherever they occur, and substituting in each case the words “two hundred and twenty-seven pounds ten shillings”
.
(2)
Section 7 of the Social Security Amendment Act 1960 is hereby repealed.
11 Benefit to widow of deceased miner
(1)
Section 44 of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from subsection (1) the words “one hundred and eighty-eight pounds ten shillings”
, and substituting the words “one hundred and ninety-five pounds”
.
(2)
Paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section 8 of the Social Security Amendment Act 1960 is hereby repealed.
Sickness Benefits
12 Increasing rates of sickness benefits
(1)
Subsection (2) of section 46 of the principal Act (as substituted by section 23 of the Social Security Amendment Act 1945) is hereby amended—
(a)
By omitting from paragraph (a) the words “sixty shillings”
, and substituting the words “sixty-two shillings and sixpence”
:
(b)
By omitting from paragraph (b) the words “eighty-five shillings”
wherever they occur, and substituting in each case the words “eighty-seven shillings and sixpence”
.
(2)
Section 9 of the Social Security Amendment Act 1960 is hereby repealed.
Unemployment Benefits
13 Increasing rates of unemployment benefits
(1)
Subsection (1) of section 52 of the principal Act is hereby amended—
(a)
By omitting from paragraph (a) the words “sixty shillings”
, and substituting the words “sixty-two shillings and sixpence”
:
(b)
By omitting from paragraph (b) the words “eighty-five shillings”
wherever they occur, and substituting in each case the words “eighty-seven shillings and sixpence”
.
(2)
Section 10 of the Social Security Amendment Act 1960 is hereby repealed.
Family Benefits
14 Family benefit may be paid concurrently with war disablement pension
Section 62 of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting in paragraph (a), after the words “any other enactment”
, the words “(other than a pension or allowance in respect of his own disablement)”
.
This Act is administered in the Social Security Department.
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