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Pensions and Benefits Amendment Act 2001

NIUE

PENSIONS AND BENEFITS AMENDMENT ACT

No. 256

AN ACT to amend the Pensions and Benefits Act 1991

[1 July 2001]

1. Short title

(1) This Act may be cited as the Pensions and Benefits Amendment Act 2001, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Pensions and Benefits Act 1991 (hereinafter referred to as "the principal Act").

(2) This Act shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st day of July 2001.

2. Entitlement to a pension

(1) The principal Act is hereby amended by inserting after subsection 3(1) the following subsection:

(1A) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1), every woman who is:

(a) of the age of 55 years; and

(b) either a Niuean or a permanent resident in Niue and has been so resident for not less than 10 years immediately preceding the date on which application is made

shall on application to the Director, be entitled subject to the provisions of this Act to receive half of the fortnightly pension entitlement until reaching the age of sixty years.

This Act is administered by the Department of Community Affairs.

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