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Section 13A

Director General may re-determine proper amount of pension or other benefit

of Pensions Adjustment Act 1980

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Section 13A
(1)

Where any pension or other benefit is granted under any other written law and adjusted under this Act or granted and adjusted under this

Act in the circumstances referred to in section 13 and subsequent thereto the

Director General receives such information as is sufficient to enable him to re-determine the proper amount of pension or other benefit payable, he shall re-determine the same.

(2)

Where, upon re-determination under subsection (1), the proper amount of pension or other benefit payable is found to be —

(a)

less than the amount paid under section 13, the proper amount shall be payable instead with effect from the date of re-determination and the amount overpaid shall be deemed to have been overpaid by mistake of fact but shall, however, not be recoverable from the person concerned; or

(b)

more than the amount paid under section 13, the proper amount shall be payable instead together with arrears, if any.

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