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WIDOWS' AND ORPHANS' PENSIONS. [ 30 OF 1890. )
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29. When orphans have no living mother or step -mother Motherless
entitled to a pension and their ages entitle them to a pension (Ibid. 26.]
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 receiving shall be
divided equally among them.
30. The directors may make such arrangements as they Payment of
shall think fit for paying any pension to orphans or to a widow pensions
trust in
with orphan children or step-children into the hands of trustees,
guardians, school-masters, or other suitable persons, either
wholly or in part. The directors may withold payment of any
such pension until such arrangements are made to their satis
faction. 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 Remarriage
pension arising from her previous marriage with a contributor. [OfIbid
widow .
. 27.)
If there are children by such previous marriage with a contri
butor, such children shall, if eligible for pensions, bư: treated as
orphans within the meaning of section 29.
32. A wife against whom any contributor has obtained a Divorce or
divorce in a British Court of Justice shall, for the purposes of separation.
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 subsequentconduct 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 Second wives.
[ Ibid, rules.]
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 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 .