AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

POLICE PENSIONS ORDINANCE 1968

Explanatory Memorandum

No. 7 of 1968

	The Police Pensions Ordinance 1958-1966 provides for the payment of pensions to a small number of former members of the Australian Capital Territory Police Force and to the widows of some former members.

	In order to bring these pensions to accord with the pensions payable under other Commonwealth legislation, the amending Ordinance provides as follows:–

	(i)	contributors' pensions are increased to an amount equal to the sum of the full pension at retirement plus five-sevenths of the difference between the full pension entitlement if granted at 30 June 1967 and the full pension entitlement at retirement;

	(ii)	the rate of a widow’s pension is increased from one-half to five-eights of the contributor’s pension entitlement, as adjusted.

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