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Aged, Destitute and Infirm Persons Relief Amendment Act 1979

COOK ISLANDS

AGED, DESTITUTE AND INFIRM PERSONS RELIEF AMENDMENT ACT 1979

ANALYSIS

Title
1. Short Title and commencement
2. Persons over sixty years of age entitled to a pension
3. Rate of pension

1979, No. 5

An Act to amend the Aged, Destitute and Infirm Persons Relief Act 1966

(23 November 1979

BE IT ENACTED by the Legislative Assembly of the Cook Islands Session assembled, and by the authority of same as follows:

1. Short Title and commencement

(1) This Act may be cited as the Aged, Destitute and Infirm Persons Relief Amendment Act 1979 and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Aged, Destitute and Infirm Persons Relief Act 1966 (hereinafter referred to as "the Principal Act".

(2) This Act shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st day of October 1979.

2. Persons over sixty years of age are entitled to a pension

Section 4 of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from subsection (1) the words "sixty-five" and substituting the word "sixty".

3. Rate of Pension

Section 5 of the principal Act (as substituted by section 2 of the Aged, Destitute and Infirm Persons Relief Amendment Act 1977) is hereby repealed and the following section substituted:-

"5. Rate of pension
Pensions shall be paid as from the first day of October 1979, at the rate of three hundred and twenty-five dollars per annum".

This Act is administered by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

RAROTONGA, COOK ISLANDS: Printed under the authority of the Cook Islands Government by T. KAPI, Government Printer - 1979.