Provided that no such resolution may provide for a
decrease in the minimum dependant pension in relation to
officers dying before the date of the resolution.
Death
gratuity. DI. 17
20. (1) Where an officer, who has not less than 2
years' qualifying service, dies while serving under the
Government, there shall be paid a death gratuity of an
amount not exceeding
(a) his annual pensionable emoluments; or
(b) the maximum commuted pension gratuity which he
would have received had he retired at the date of
his death and opted for reduction of his pension
by 50 per cent under section 24(1)
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whichever is the greater.
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(2) In computing a commuted pension gratuity for the
purposes of subsection (1), the officer's service shall be
deemed to include any period of untaken vacation leave for
which an ex gratia payment corresponding to the salary for
that period has been granted.
(3) Where a pensioner, who has not received his
maximum commuted pension gratuity or who has not been paid
pension equivalent to such maximum commuted pension