option has not been rejected under subsection (2) of
that section;
"short service gratuity" means a short service gratuity
granted to an officer under section 32;
"special allowance" means a special addition to salary
declared to be pensionable by a resolution of the
Legislative Council under section 3;
"spouse" means the person to whom an officer is, by reason
of the form of marriage contracted, lawfully married;
"wife", in relation to an officer, means
(a) the lawful wife of the officer married to him by
a Christian marriage or its civil equivalent; or
(b) where there is no such wife and the officer is
Chinese the kit fat or tin fong wife; or
(c) where there is no wife under paragraph (a) or (b)
and polygamy lawfully subsists, the principal
wife recognized as such by the personal law of
the officer,
and "widow" shall be construed accordingly.