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option has not been rejected under subsection (2) of

that section;

"short service gratuity" means a short service gratuity

granted to an officer under section 32;

"special allowance" means a special addition to salary

declared to be pensionable by a resolution of the

Legislative Council under section 3;

"spouse" means the person to whom an officer is, by reason

of the form of marriage contracted, lawfully married;

"wife", in relation to an officer, means

(a) the lawful wife of the officer married to him by

a Christian marriage or its civil equivalent; or

(b) where there is no such wife and the officer is

Chinese the kit fat or tin fong wife; or

(c) where there is no wife under paragraph (a) or (b)

and polygamy lawfully subsists, the principal

wife recognized as such by the personal law of

the officer,

and "widow" shall be construed accordingly.