Widows and Orphans Pension.
shall be lawful for the directors, with the consent of the Governor, to award to such last-mentioned widow all or any part of the pension to which she would have been entitled but for the provisions of this subsection.
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18. The allowance or pension to an orphan shall cease pension to in the case of a male at the age of eighteen years, and in the case of a female on marriage or at the age of twenty-one [16] years.
orphan.
of pensions.
19. Every pension shall be calculated according to the Calculation rules and tables under this Ordinance.
[17]
for case of
orphans.
20. Subject to the provisions of section 18, when Provision orphans have no living mother or stepmother entitled to a pension, the pension to which the wife of the deceased contributor would have been entitled if she had survived him or which his widow was receiving at the time of her death shall be divided equally among such orphans; and whenever one of such orphans ceases to be eligible for pensions, the whole pension shall be re-divided equally among the others. [19]
for case
marrying.
21. If the widow of an officer marries again she shall Provision cease to receive a pension from the date of remarriage; and the children of such widow and officer shall thereupon be entitled to pension as if both their parents were dead.
[20]
for case of
separation.
divorce or
22. A wife whose marriage has been dissolved by a Provision divorce which would be recognized as valid by a British court of justice shall, for the purposes of this Ordinance, be considered as dead; but where an officer has been separated from his wife, either 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 the more desirable.
[21]
for case of
widow and previous
children of
marriage.
23. (1) When an officer dies leaving a widow and Provision children, the issue of a previous marriage existing when he became a contributor or contracted after he became a contributor, such children shall be entitled each to a share or portion of one-half of the pension to which their mother, if she had survived their father, would have been entitled, such share or portion being calculated in accordance with the provisions of section 20.
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