The payment to any person of a consolidated pension within the meaning of this Act prior to the amendment thereof by the Pension Laws Amendment Act, 1980, shall with effect from 1 April 1980 be discontinued and in its stead there shall be paid to such a person such pension contemplated in section 4 as may be designated by the Minister: Provided that the pension payable to such a person shall amount to not less than the consolidated pension that would otherwise have been payable to him on that date.

[Section 4A inserted by section 6 of Act No. 97 of 1980 (Notice No. 1525, GG 7150, dated 1 August 1980)]