Pension Laws Amendment Act 88 of 1987

Pension Laws Amendment Act, 1987 (No. 88 of 1987)

GENERAL EXPLANATORY NOTE:
__ Words underlined with solid line indicate insertions in existing enactments.

Act

• to amend the Military Pensions Act, 1976, so as to effect a textual improvement; 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.

(Afrikaans text signed by the State President.)
(Assented to 6 October 1987.)

BE IT ENACTED by the State President and the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa, as follows:-

Amendment of section 13A of Act 84 of 1976, as inserted by section 4 of Act 106 of 1986.

1. (1) Section 13A of the Military Pensions Act, 1976, is hereby amended by the substitution for subsection (2) of the following subsection:

"(2) The amount of the allowance or the basis on which it is to be calculated and the conditions subject to which it is to be paid, shall be determined by the Minister with the concurrence of the Minister of Finance.".

(2) Subsection (1) shall be deemed to have come into operation on 1 October 1986.

Increase of certain benefits and special awards.

2. (1) A benefit as defined in section 1, and a special award referred to in section 101, of the Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Act, 1973 (Act No. 78 of 1973), which are payable monthly in terms of the said Act, and which were increased by the Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Amendment Act, 1974 (Act No. 67 of 1974), the Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Amendment Act, 1975 (Act No. 45 of 1975), the Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Amendment Act, 1977 (Act No. 117 of 1977), the Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Amendment Act, 1979 (Act No. 83 of 1979), the Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Amendment Act, 1980 (Act No. 83 of 1980), the Occupational Diseases in Mines arid Works Amendment Act, 1981 (Act No. 85 of 1981), the Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Amendment Act, 1983 (Act No. 106 of 1983), the Pension Laws Amendment Act, 1984 (Act No. 123 of 1984), the Pension and Related Matters Amendment Act, 1985 (Act No. 105 of 1985), and the Pension Laws Amendment Act, 1986 (Act No. 106 of 1986), shall be further increased with effect from 1 October 1987 by ten per cent.

Short title.

3. This Act shall be called the Pension Laws Amendment Act, 1987.

Commencement

16 October 1987