THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 17TH JANUARY, 1891.
28. The pension to which a widow or any orphan is entitled shall be computed in accordance with the tables contained in the Schedule B to this Ordinance. Such tables shall be subject to revision from time to time as the Governor in Council may deem necessary, and such revised tables shall be published in the Gazette.
29. When orphans have no living mother or step-mother entitled to a pension and their ages entitle them to a pension, such pension shall be computed as follows;-
(1.) If there are three orphans or less entitled to pension, each orphan shall receive one-fourth of the pension to which the wife of the deceased contributor would have been entitled if she had survived him, or which she was receiving at the time of her death.
(2.) If there are more than three such orphans so entitled to pension, then the pension to which such widow would have been entitled or was re- ceiving shall be divided equally among them.
30. The directors may make such arrangements as they shall think fit for paying any pension to orphans or to a widow with orphan children or step-children into the hands of trustees, guardians, school-masters, or other suitable per- sons, either wholly or in part. The directors may withold payment of any such pension until such arrangements are made to their satisfaction. The receipts of such trustees, guardians, school-masters, or other suitable persons shall be a sufficient discharge to the directors for the amounts which such receipts represent.
31. Any widow who marries again shall forfeit all claim to pension arising from her previous marriage with a con- tributor. If there are children by such previous marriage with a contributor, such children shall, if eligible for pen- sions, be treated as orphans within the meaning of section
29.
32. A wife against whom any contributor has obtained a divorce in a British Court of Justice shall, for the pur- poses of this Ordinance, be considered as dead, but where a contributor has been separated from his wife, judicially, or by mutual consent, or otherwise, the directors may, having regard to the grounds of the separation, and the subsequent conduct of both parties, grant a pension either to the widow or to the orphans if any, as they shall think most desirable.
33. The widow of any contributor by a second or any other subsequent marriage shall be entitled to the same pension as would have been paid to the first wife if she had survived her husband, provided that such second or sub- sequent wife was not younger at the date of her marriage with the contributor than the first wife would have been at such date if she had lived. If she is younger, her pension shall be reduced in accordance with the tables herein before mentioned.
34. When any contributor dies leaving a widow and also children by a previous marriage whose ages entitle them to pensions, the respective pensions of such widow and of such orphans shall be computed as follows;-
(1.) If there are three or more such children, they shall be entitled to one-half the pension to which their mother would have been entitled had she survived her husband, to be divided equally amongst them.
(2.) If two such children, one-third of such mother's pension shall be divided between them.
(3.) If only one such child, he shall be entitled to
one-fourth of such mother's pension.
(4.) In
of the three above-mentioned cases, the any said widow shall be entitled to one-half of the pension which she would have received under section 33 had there been no such orphans.
(5.) If there are no such orphans, or if they cease to be entitled to pensions, the pension of such widow will be computed under section 33.
Computation of pensions. Ibid. 25
Motherless orphans, Ibid. 26.
Payment of
pensions in trust.
Remarriage of widow. Ibid.27.
Divorce or separation.
Second wives. Ibid, Rules.
Step-mothers and children. Ibid. 28.
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