War Pensions Amendment Act 1996

Public Act		1996 No 156
Date of assent		2 September 1996

	Title
1	Short Title and commencement
2	Rates of pensions and allowances may be increased by Order in Council
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the War Pensions Act 1954 to permit the percentage figures in the Ninth Schedule to the Act to be increased by Order in Council

BE IT ENACTED by the Parliament of New Zealand as follows:

1 Short Title and commencement

(1)

This Act may be cited as the War Pensions Amendment Act 1996, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the War Pensions Act 1954 (in this Act referred to as the principal Act).

(2)

This Act shall come into force on the day that is 1 month after the day on which this Act receives the Royal assent.

2 Rates of pensions and allowances may be increased by Order in Council

(1)

Section 75c of the principal Act (as substituted by section 2(1) of the War Pensions Amendment Act 1990) is hereby amended by repealing subsection (1), and substituting the following subsection:

“(1)

The Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council, amend—

“(a)

The First, Second, Fourth, and Fifth Schedules to this Act by increasing the rate of any pension or allowance set out in those Schedules:

“(b)

The Ninth Schedule to this Act by increasing any percentage figure set out in that Schedule.”

(2)

Section 15(5) of the Social Welfare (Transitional Provisions) Act 1990 is hereby consequentially repealed.

This Act is administered in the Department of Social Welfare.

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