http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/708/article/3/madeThe Pensions Increase (Review) Order 1995State pensionsKing's Printer of Acts of Parliament2015-03-05PENSIONS Under section 59 of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 as amended, and as modified by section 59A of that Act, the Treasury (in whom the functions conferred by those provisions are now vested) are required to provide by order for the increase in the rates of public service pensions. The increase is the percentage (or in some circumstances a fraction of the percentage) by which the Secretary of State for Social Security has, by direction given under the provisions of section 151(1) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992, increased the sums referred to in section 150(1)(c) of that Act. These are the sums which are the additional pensions in long term benefits, namely the additional pension entitlements accruing to employees in respect of earnings after 5th April 1978. Pension increases 3 The annual rate of an official pension may, if a qualifying condition is satisfied or the pension is a derivative or substituted pension or a relevant injury pension, be increased by the pension authority in respect of any period on or after 10th April 1995 as follows— 1 a pension beginning before 11th April 1994 may be increased by 2.2 per cent of the basic rate as increased by the amount of any increase under section 1 of the 1971 Act or the existing Orders; 2 a pension beginning on or after 11th April 1994 and before 10th April 1995 may be increased by 2.2 per cent multiplied by A where may be increased by 2.2 per cent multiplied by AB where a A is the number of complete months in the period between the beginning date of the pension and 10th April 1995, and b B is 12.