1 Short Title

• This Act may be cited as the War Pensions Amendment Act 1976, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the War Pensions Act 1954 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

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• 7 [Repealed]

  Sections 7 to 9 were repealed, as from 23 December 1977, by section 4(2) War Pensions Amendment Act 1977 (1977 No 132).

• 8 [Repealed]

  Sections 7 to 9 were repealed, as from 23 December 1977, by section 4(2) War Pensions Amendment Act 1977 (1977 No 132).

• 9 [Repealed]

  Sections 7–9 were repealed, as from 23 December 1977, by section 4(2) War Pensions Amendment Act 1977 (1977 No 132).

10 Authority to increase rates of pensions and allowances

• (1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the principal Act, the Board may, in accordance with any general or special instructions given by the Minister, in respect of the period commencing on the 1st day of December 1975 and ending with the 31st day of December 1975, increase the rate of any pension or allowance under the principal Act by an amount not exceeding the rate of that pension or allowance payable in respect of any one week in that period.

  (2) This section shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st day of December 1975.

• 11 [Repealed]

  Section 11 was repealed, as from 23 December 1977, by section 4(2) War Pensions Amendment Act 1977 (1977 No 132).