Pension and Related Matters Amendment Act 105 of 1985

The Pension and Related Matters Amendment Act 105 of 1985 intends:

• to amend the Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Act, 1973, so as to increase the one-sum benefits payable to persons suffering from compensatable diseases in the second degree and to make other provision relating to the determination of the one-sum benefit payable to the widow or dependent children of a deceased White person who was at the time of his death suffering from a compensatable disease in the second degree;
• to insert a section 11A in the Members of Parliament and Political Office-bearers Pension Scheme Act, 1984, in which the pensionable service is regulated of certain office-bearers whose term of office is terminated by the State President;
• to amend the Pension Laws Amendment Act, 1984, so as
  • to effect a textual correction in section 9 thereof;
  • to empower the State President to approve a reduction in the salaries or remuneration of certain political office-bearers, and in connection therewith to provide for the retention of certain pension rights of such office-bearers, their dependants, estates or surviving spouses; and
  • to increase certain benefits and special awards payable in terms of the Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Act, 1973; and
• to provide for matters connected therewith.

Commencement

24 July 1985