Hong Kong Defence Force.
(a) to a widow's pension payable in accordance with the provisions of the Force pay code at rates applicable to the deceased's rank and appropriate to his unit; and (b) additional allowance for children (as defined in the Force pay code) payable in accordance with the provisions of such code at rates applicable to the deceased's rank and appropriate to his unit.
(3) (a) The parent, a motherless or fatherless child and other dependant of an officer or volunteer, as declared on the date of enlistment or as subsequently notified to the Commandant, who loses his life whilst called out, in training or under instruction or whose death is, in the opinion of a board constituted for the purpose of this section, attributable to illness caused or aggravated by such service shall, irrespective of the deceased's nationality, be entitled to claim the appropriate pension in respect of the deceased. Such pension shall be paid in accordance with the provisions of the Force pay code at rates applicable to the deceased's rank and appropriate to his unit.
(b) The terms "parent", "child" and "other dependant" shall have the respective meanings assigned to them in the Force pay code.
(4) An unmarried dependant declared on the date of enlistment or as subsequently notified to the Commandant as living as a wife of an officer or volunteer who loses his life whilst called out, in training or under instruction or whose death is, in the opinion of a board constituted for the purpose of this section, attributable to illness caused or aggravated by such service shall, irrespective of the deceased's nationality, be entitled to claim a pension in respect of the deceased. Such a pension shall be paid in accordance with the provisions of the Force pay code at rates applicable to the deceased's rank and appropriate to his unit.
(5) All pensions paid under the provisions of this section shall be augmented whilst the pensioner is resident in the Colony by a cost of living allowance to be fixed from time to time by the Governor in Council.
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