# The Pensions Increase (Speakers' Pensions) Regulations 1972, Regulation 4


Any increase under the 1971 Act of a pension payable under Mr. Speaker Morrison's Retirement Act 1959 or under the Hon. Lady Hylton-Foster's Annuity Act 1965 shall not at any time exceed the amount by which the basic rate of the pension falls short of the rate of the pension to which the person in receipt of the pension would have been entitled under section 27 of the Parliamentary and other Pensions Act 1972 if the person in respect of whose service the pension is payable had, not earlier than that time, ceased to hold office as Speaker of the House of Commons.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1972/1653/regulation/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-increase-speakers-pensions-regulations-1972/regulation-4
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