To amend the Special Pensions Act, 1996, so as to authorise the Special Pensions Board to condone certain applications for benefits received after the closing date contemplated in that Act; to effect technical corrections; to determine the quorum for meetings of the Special Pensions Board; to provide afresh for the dissolution of the Special Pensions Board; to remove the requirement that one of the members of the Review Board must be an actuary; and to validate certain acts and decisions purportedly performed and taken in terms of the Act; to amend the Military Pensions Act, 1976, so as to change the definition of "military service"; and to provide for the retrospective effect of certain amendments; and to provide for matters connected therewith.