The Pensions Increase (Annual Review) Order 1978

Article 3(2)

SCHEDULE

Section 1 of the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971 reproduced with the effect of the existing Orders and article 3(1) of this Order incorporated in it

1.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the annual rate of an official pension may, if any qualifying condition is satisfied or the pension is a widow's pension, be increased by the pension authority in respect of any period or after 1st December 1978, as follows:—

(a) a pension beginning before the year 1969 may be increased by the amount necessary to bring the rate up to the 1969 standard, that is to say to the rate arrived at by applying to the basic rate of pension the multiplier given in Schedule 1 for the year in which the pension began, and by a further 199.5462 per cent. of the rate so increased;

(b) a pension beginning on or before 1st April 1969 but not earlier than that year may be increased by 199.5462 per cent. of the basic rate;

(c) a pension beginning in the six months following 1st April 1969 may be increased by 194.4692 per cent. of the basic rate;

(d) a pension beginning in the six months following 1st October 1969 may be increased by 189.3921 per cent. of the basic rate;

(e) a pension beginning in the six months following 1st April 1970 may be increased by 179.2380 per cent. of the basic rate;

(f) a pension beginning in the six months following 1st October 1970 may be increased by 169.0839 per cent. of the basic rate;

(g) a pension beginning in the six months following 1st April 1971 may be increased by 156.3936 per cent. of the basic rate;

(h) a pension beginning in the six months following 1st October 1971 may be increased by 143.9204 per cent. of the basic rate;

(i) a pension beginning in the six months following 1st April 1972 may be increased by 139.0697 per cent. of the basic rate;

(j) a pension beginning in the six months following 1st July 1972 may be increased by 133.3099 per cent. of the basic rate;

(k) a pension beginning in the six months following 1st January 1973 may be increased by 124.2226 per cent. of the basic rate;

(l) a pension beginning in the six months following 1st July 1973 may be increased by 114.2338 per cent. of the basic rate;

(m) a pension beginning in the six months following 1st January 1974 may be increased by 103.7126 per cent. of the basic rate;

(n) a pension beginning in the six months following 1st July 1974 may be increased by 86.0037 per cent. of the basic rate;

(o) a pension beginning in the six months following 1st January 1975 may be increased by 72.4814 per cent. of the basic rate;

(p) a pension beginning in the six months following 1st July 1975 may be increased by 50.6805 per cent. of the basic rate;

(q) a pension beginning in the six months following 1st January 1976 may be increased by 37.5339 per cent. of the basic rate;

(r) a pension beginning in the six months following 1st July 1976 may be increased by 28.3430 per cent. of the basic rate;

(s) a pension beginning in the six months following 1st January 1977 may be increased by 19.6436 per cent. of the basic rate;

(t) a pension beginning in the six months following 1st July 1977 may be increased by 9.6 per cent. of the basic rate;

(u) a pension beginning in the six months following 1st January 1978 may be increased by 5.5 per cent. of the basic rate;

(2) In the case of a pension beginning before the year 1969 the increase authorised by subsection (1)(a) above shall take the place of those authorised by the Pensions (Increase) Acts 1920 to 1969, but in the cases provided for by section 6 below shall be of the larger amount there specified by reference to increases that might have been made under those Acts together with a further increase of 199.5462 per cent. of the pension as so increased.