24.— Section 2(1) of the National Pensions Reserve Fund Act 2000 is amended by substituting the following definition for the definition of “Gross National Product”:

“ ‘Gross National Product’ means, for the year in which payments are made to the Fund under section 18, the estimate (as corresponding in its composition to the definition of gross national product at market prices in use by the Central Statistics Office) of gross national product at market prices for that year published by the Minister with the Budget;”.