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Old Age Pensions Acts and social pensions legislation

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Kind legislation gazette
Producer Union/RSA/SWA/Namibia
Coverage 1928-1998
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Debates

Debate Works
Living standards, health and social policy 1

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Devereux (2007) Amending Acts to the Old Age Pensions Act: No. 34 of 1931, No. 34 of 1937, No. 48 of 1944, No. 35 of 1949, Act No. 38 of 1962 1931-1962 Traces the repeal of the recovery-from-children provision, the lower female age, the 1944 extension to Indians and natives with tiered rates, and the 1949 extension to white South West Africans.
Devereux (2007) National Pensions Act 1992 (Namibia), Government Gazette 395; Basic State Grant Amendment Act (draft) 1998 1992-1998 Shows the equalisation of age and payments, the means-testing provision, and the proposed renaming to 'Basic State Grants Act'.
Devereux (2007) Old Age Pensions Act No. 22 of 1928 (Statutes of the Union of South Africa: 1928) 1928 Establishes the original pension eligibility (whites and coloureds aged 65, means-tested) and the exclusion of natives and South West Africa.
Devereux (2007) Social Pensions Ordinance No. 2 of 1965 and Social Pensions Act No. 37 of 1973 (Laws of South West Africa) 1965; 1973 Establishes the stages of extension of social pensions to coloured Namibians (1965) and to all Namibian residents (1973).