Definitions
61B Definitions
In this Division, except in so far as the context or subject-matter otherwise indicates or requires—
adjustment date, in relation to a year, means the first day of the pension pay period that ends on the first pension pay day in the October that next follows that year.
adjustment percentage, in relation to a year, means (subject to section 61C (2)) the percentage for that year, calculated in accordance with section 61C.
Index number, in relation to a June quarter, means the number for that June quarter appearing in the Consumer Price Index (All Groups Index) for Sydney published by the Australian Statistician under the Census and Statistics Act 1905–1966 of the Parliament of the Commonwealth or that Act as amended from time to time or any Act of that Parliament passed in substitution therefor.
June quarter, in relation to a year, means the period commencing on and including 1 April in that year and ending on and including 30 June in that year.
pension—
subject to paragraph (b), means—
pension payable under this Act, and
pension wholly paid or recouped from the Consolidated Revenue Fund or the funds of an employer, and
does not include—
pension that has been commuted under section 21C, or
pension payable in respect of a child or a student.
quarter, in relation to a year, means—
the period commencing on and including 1 July in that year and ending on and including 30 September in that year,
the period commencing on and including 1 October in that year and ending on and including 31 December in that year,
the period commencing on and including 1 January in that year and ending on and including 31 March in that year, or
the period commencing on and including 1 April in that year and ending on and including 30 June in that year.
suspended part of a pension, in relation to an adjustment date, means, where any part of an increase in pension was not payable at that adjustment date by reason only of the operation of section 33A, the unpaid part of that increase or, where any part of a pension was not payable at that adjustment date by reason only of the operation of section 31B (3), the unpaid part of that pension.
suspended pension, in relation to an adjustment date, means—
a pension that was not payable under section 30 or 31 at that adjustment date by reason only of the marriage of a person, or
a pension that was not payable at that adjustment date by reason only of the operation of section 50 or 94.
year means—
the period commencing on and including 1 July 1973 and ending on and including 30 June 1974, or
a subsequent period commencing on and including 1 July and ending on and including the next following 30 June.
Where a pension is to be adjusted under this Division by reference to the adjustment percentage for a year, a reference (however expressed) in this Division to adjusting the pension is a reference to—
where the adjustment percentage is calculated in accordance with the formula set out in section 61C (1) (a)—increasing the pension, or
where the adjustment percentage is calculated in accordance with the formula set out in section 61C (1) (b)—reducing the pension.
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