Pensions—mine workers who are retired
104 Pensions—mine workers who are retired
Any person engaged in the coal mining industry as a mine worker at the commencement of Part II of the Coal Mine Workers Pensions Act 1942 or at the date of retirement (as the case may be) shall be eligible, as from the date of retirement or (in the case of a person who having attained the retiring age has ceased to be engaged in the coal mining industry after the thirty-first day of December One thousand nine hundred and forty-one but before the commencement of the said Part) as from the date of commencement of the said Part, for a pension of $102.30 per week if he establishes to the satisfaction of the Tribunal that—
he has been continuously resident in Victoria during the five years immediately preceding the date of retirement, and he has actually worked as a mine worker for not less than sixty days in each of these years; or
(i) he has been resident in Victoria for not less than five years out of the seven years immediately preceding the date of retirement; and
he has actually worked in or about a coal mine in Australia for not less than five hundred days in the said period of seven years; and
he has actually worked as a mine worker in Victoria for not less than sixty days in each of the years he has been resident in Victoria including the twelve months immediately preceding the commencement of the said Part or the date of retirement (as the case may be):
Provided that the Tribunal shall not award a pension under this section to any mine worker unless, in its opinion, the employment of such mine worker was bona fide, and was not arranged solely or mainly for the purpose of enabling such mine worker to become eligible for a pension pursuant to this section.
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