Pension Laws Amendment Act 67 of 1959

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67 of 1959

The Pension Laws Amendment Act 67 of 1959 intends: 

  • to amend
    • the Old Age Pensions Act, 1928 [repealed in 1962],
    • the War Special Pensions Act, 1919 [repealed in 1962],
    • the War Pensions Act, 1942 [repealed in 1979],
    • the Pension Laws Amendment Act, 1943 [repealed in 1980],
    • the Pension Laws Amendment Act, 1951 [repealed in 1979],
    • the Pension Laws Amendment Act, 1955 [repealed in 1979],
    • the Government Service Pensions Act, 1955 [repealed in 1966],
    • the Universities Act, 1955 [repealed in 1997], and
  • to make further provision in connection with the retirement or pension benefits of certain teachers at Government Bantu Schools,
  • to extend the power to perform certain functions assigned to the Treasury in certain laws, to officers in the Department of Social Welfare and Pensions,
  • to assign certain powers, duties and functions to the head of the Department of Social Welfare and Pensions,
  • to relieve certain persons of certain requirements prescribed by certain Acts,
  • to provide for the making of regulations under paragraph (k) of section eighty-six of the Children's Ad, 1937, with retrospective effect,
  • to provide for the continuation, in certain circumstances, of the payment of the whole or part of any amount by which a pension or grant has been increased in terms of section seventeen of the Pension Laws Amendment Act, 1954, and
  • to provide for other incidental matters.

Commencement

17 July 1959

Amendments

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