South Africa Act 1962

8(1)In relation to any person to whom this paragraph applies, subsection (1) of section two of the Old Age Pensions Act, 1936 (statutory conditions for receipt of old age pension) shall (without prejudice to the restrictions imposed on the payment of such pensions by subsection (3) of section seventy-four of the National Insurance Act, 1946) have effect as if for paragraph (b) there were substituted the following paragraph:—

“(b)the person shall satisfy the pension authorities that for at least ten years up to the date of the receipt of any sum on account of a pension he has been a British subject, or a citizen of the Republic of South Africa, or partly the one and partly the other, and that he has been resident in the United Kingdom, if he was born a British subject, for an aggregate period of not less than twelve years since attaining the age of fifty years or, in the case of a blind person, twenty years and, if he was not born a British subject, for an aggregate period of twenty years ;”.

(2)This paragraph applies to any person who satisfies the pension authorities (within the meaning of the said section two) that he was, immediately before the commencement of this Act, a British subject by virtue of being a citizen of the Republic, but ceased to be a British subject at the commencement of this Act (whether or not he has subsequently become a British subject again).

(3)References in the foregoing provisions of this paragraph to section two of the Old Age Pensions Act, 1936, and section seventy-four of the National Insurance Act, 1946, include respectively references to section two of the Old Age Pensions Act (Northern Ireland), 1936, and section seventy-one of the National Insurance Act (Northern Ireland), 1946.