
1 
This Order may be cited as the Members' Contributory Pension Fund (Increase of Benefits) Order 1971, and shall come into operation on the day following the day on which it is approved by a resolution of the Commons House of Parliament.
2 
The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply for the interpretation of this Order as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
3 
All the rates of benefit under Part II of the Ministerial Salaries and Members' Pensions Act 1965 shall, in respect of any period after the date of the coming into operation of this Order, be increased by one fifth of the rates in force immediately before that date.
Given under the Official Seal of the Minister for the Civil Service on 30th March 1971.
K. H. McNeill
Authorised by the Minister for the Civil Service
