1 Short Title

• This Act may be cited as the War Pensions Amendment Act 1977, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the War Pensions Act 1954 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

• 2 [Repealed]

  Sections 2 to 4 were repealed, as from 10 October 1978, by section 8(2) War Pensions Amendment Act 1978 (1978 No 59).

• 3 [Repealed]

  Sections 2 to 4 were repealed, as from 10 October 1978, by section 8(2) War Pensions Amendment Act 1978 (1978 No 59).

• 4 [Repealed]

  Sections 2 to 4 were repealed, as from 10 October 1978, by section 8(2) War Pensions Amendment Act 1978 (1978 No 59).

5 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 1976 and ending with the 31st day of December 1976, 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 1976.