To amend the Special Pensions Act, 1996, so as to define and further define certain expressions; to extend the right to a pension to persons 30 years of age, but not yet 35 years of age, on 1 December 1996; to extend the surviving spouse’s pension, orphan’s pension and funeral benefit to certain persons; to regulate the administration of the Act; to amend Schedule 3 to the Act; and to provide for matters connected therewith.