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bles contained hedule to this hance Omit. to any widow or orphan of any public officer, until every debt due to the fund by such public officer shall have been full discharged.
21. No widow of a public officer who dies within one year from the date of his marriage shall be entitled to a pension under this Ordinance unless a child is born of such marriage.
[Ibid, s. 28.]
Provided that it shall be lawful for the directors, with the consent of the Governor in Executive Council, to award a pension to such widow or child if it shall appear to them just and reasonable.
22. The allowance or pension to orphans shall cease in the case of males at the age of eighteen years, and in the case of females on marriage or at the age of twenty-one years.
[Ibid, s. 27.]
23. The pension or allowance to which a widow or child of a deceased public officer is entitled shall be computed according to tables to be approved of by the Governor with the advice of the Executive Council. Such tables shall be adjusted and revised by an actuary or actuaries who shall be appointed quinquennially by the Governor with the advice of the Executive Council.
[Ibid, s. 18.]
The first appointment of an actuary or actuaries shall take place on the 31st day of December, 1900, or as soon after as possible. All pensions to widows or children, whether in possession or in expectation and reversion, shall be subject to re-adjustment, and shall be computed upon the tables so adjusted and revised, and diminished or increased accordingly.
It shall be in the discretion of the Directors to commute the pension payable to a widow residing in China or in any other country where the payment of pension is impracticable, by the payment of such amount as may be agreed on with the widow, which amount shall vary according to the widow's age, and such widow or the children of the contributor shall have no further claim on the fund: Provided always that such amount shall not exceed the number of years' purchase of such pension as may be fixed by the Directors under section 8.
24. When a public officer being a widower and unmarried shall die or have died leaving a child or children entitled to pensions, or when a widow of a public officer shall die or have died and there be a child or children of such public officer surviving entitled to pension, the pensions of such child or children shall be the amount which the widow would have received or had been receiving, equally divided among the children.
[Ibid, s. 39.]
25. The widow of a public officer who marries again shall cease to receive a pension from the date of such marriage; and the children of such widow and public officer shall thereupon be entitled to pension as hereinbefore provided in the event of the death of both parents.
[Ibid, s. 31.]
26. A wife against whom any public officer has obtained a divorce in a British Court of Justice shall, for the purposes of this Ordinance, be considered as dead, but where a public officer 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.
[Ibid, s. 32.]
27. The widow of any public officer by a second or any 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 subsequent wife was not younger at the date of her marriage with the public officer 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 hereinbefore mentioned.
[Ibid, s. 33.]
27-28. When a public officer dies leaving a widow and children the issue of a previous marriage existing when he became a contributor to the fund, or contracted after he became such contributor, and such children are of ages which entitle them to pensions from the fund, such children shall be entitled each of them to an equal share.
[Ibid, s. 34.]