Pensions (Increase) 1986 (CAP. 320 1
CHAPTER 320
THE PENSIONS (INCREASE) ACT, 1986
Arrangement of Sections
Section
1. Short title.
2. Interpretation. -
3 . Increase of pensions payable on retirement from ser-
vice in Antigua and Barbuda.
FIRST SCHEDULE
SECOND SCHEDULE
PENSIONS (INCREASE) 1986
(1st September, 1984.) 2111986.
1. This Act may be cited as the Pensions (Increase)
Act, 1986.
2. In this Act the expression "pension" means any Interpretation.
pension payable under the provisions of any law mentioned
in the First Schedule; but the expression does not include
any gratuity and does not include any sum payable other-
wise than by way of periodical payments, and accordingly
the provisions of this Act shall not have effect with respect
of any pension which has been commuted, and, where a part
of any pension has been commuted, those provisions shall
not have effect with respect to that part thereof.
LAWS OF ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
2 CAP. 320) Pensions (Increase) 1986
Increase of
pensions payable 3 . (1) Any pension specified in the First Schedule
on retirement may, in respect of any period after the 31st day of August,
from service in 1984 be increased by the Cabinet to the extent prescribed
Antigua and
Barbuda. by the Second Schedule.
(2) No increase shall be made under this section in
respect of any pension calculated on pensionable emoluments
received after the 3 1 st day of August, 1984.
FIRST SCHEDULE (Section 2)
Cap. 311. 1. A pension payable under the Pensions Act.
Cap. 331. 2. A pension payable under the Police Pensions (Preserva-
tion of Rights) Act.
Cap. 330. 3. A pension payable under the Police Act.
711931. 4. A pension payable under the Denominational School
Teachers Pension Act, 193 1, as amended.
5 . A pension payable under the Pensions Act (Cap. 130
of the Revised Laws of the Leeward Islands - 1927) as amended.
Cap. 310. 6. A pension payable under the Pension (Non-Established
Government Employees) Act.
Cap. 322. 7. A pension payable under the Pensions and Gratuities
(Parliamentary and Special Offices) Act.
LAWS OF ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
Pensions (Increase) 1986 (CAP. 320 3
SECOND SCHEDULE (Section 3)
1. A pension of $500 or less per month, the increase is
17 W % of the pension;
2. A pension of more than $500 per month but less than
$750 per month, the increase is $87.50 per month;
3. A pension of $750 or more per month but less than $900
per month, the increase is 12 W % of the pension;
4. A pension of $900 or more per month, the increase is
$1 12.50 per month.
