# The Pensions (Preservation of Increases) Order 1971, Article 3: Interpretation and use of Tables


(1) In the Tables annexed to this order the expression “up to”, where used with reference to a date, is to be read as including that date, but in a head or line preceded by one operating by reference to an earlier date as excluding the time up that earlier date, except in any case to which the preceding head or line does not apply; and similarly where the expression “up to” is used with reference to a rate of pension.
(2) To find from the relevant Table the 1971 rate (with or without supplement) for any pension, the head or line to be used is that relevant to the date when the pension begins; and the basic rate or other rate on which the Table operates for that pension is to be multiplied by the figure given in the column headed by the multiplication sign, and to the result so obtained there is to be added any amount given in a column headed by the £ sign.
(3) The Tables giving the 1971 rate include in a separate division figures indicating, in terms of the basic rate of a pension to which the Table applies, where the 1971 rate (with or without supplement) or the 1969 standard is the higher; but this division is not to be treated as having operative effect, and the indications given are not applicable in cases where the comparison is affected either—
(a) by apportionment of any increase or of the supplement; or
(b) by a reduction in the 1971 rate on account of a war increase in the pension;
unless the apportionment or reduction affects only a 1944 element to be derived from another Table.
Except in cases where the comparison is so affected, in this division of any Table—
(i) a single figure indicates the basic rate up to which the 1971 rate, with or without supplement according to the column, would be used as being higher than the 1969 standard and above which the 1969 standard would be used;
(ii) a pair of figures indicates, for cases where the 1971 rate depends on variable factors other than the basic rate, by the lower figure the basic rate up to which the 1971 rate would be used in all cases, and by the higher figure the basic rate at or above which it would not be used;
(iii) the expression “nil” is accordingly used to indicate that the 1969 standard is always higher than the alternative, and the expression “not relevant” (or the abbreviation “n/r”) is used to indicate that the 1969 standard cannot be the higher;
(iv) a dash is used to indicate that variable factors prevent the giving of an indication;
(v) where in a pair of figures one figure is replaced by a dash, the figure given is to be treated as the higher or lower figure of a pair according to its position on the right or on the left.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1971/1316/article/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-preservation-of-increases-order-1971/article-3
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