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(2) If the widow of any such officer marries again her pension under the provisions of this section shall cease on the remarriage: Provided that the pension may in the discretion of the Governor in Council, be revived upon re-widowhood.
(3) The pension of an orphan under the provisions of this section shall cease 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 years.
A similar section is included in the regulations made under the Police Force Ordinance No. 37 of 1932.
189. The regulations made under the Pensions Ordinance, 1932, provide for the grant of an allowance for injured officers :
(1) Where a person employed in the public service of this Colony has been permanently injured—
(a) in the actual discharge of his duty; and
(b) without his own fault; and
(c) by some injury specifically attributable to the nature of his duty; and his retirement is thereby necessitated or materially accelerated, he may be granted in respect of such injury, in addition to any pension or allowance granted under these regulations, an annual allowance at the rate. of the proportion of his actual pensionable emoluments at the date of his injury appropriate to his case as shown in the following table:
Where his capacity to contribute to his support is :--
slightly impaired
impaired
materially impaired
totally destroyed
sixty seven-hundred-and-twentieths (60/720ths).
one hundred and twenty seven-hundred- and-twentieths (120/720ths).
one hundred and eighty seven-hundred- and-twentieths (180-720ths).
two hundred and forty seven-hundred-and- twentieths (240/720ths).
Provided that no such allowance, together with any pension granted under these regulations, shall exceed the limit prescribed in section 11 of the Ordinance.
(2) The amount of the annual allowance shall be reduced to such an extent as the Governor in Council shall think reasonable in the following
cases-
(a) where the injured man has continued to serve for not less than
one year after the injury in respect of which he retires;
(b) where the injured man is not less than fifty years of age at the
date of the injury; or
(c) where the injury is not the sole cause of retirement, but the retire- ment is caused partly by age or infirmity not due to the injury.
(3) Where the officer so injured holds a pensionable office and his length of service is not such as to qualify him for a pension, but he is qualified for a gratuity under regulation 20, he may be granted in lieu of such gratuity an annual allowance of one seven-hundred-and-twentieth (1/720th) of his pensionable emoluments for each complete month of pensionable service in addition to the allowance which may be awarded to him under this regulation.
(4) Any officer so injured, but not qualified for either a pension or a gratuity, may nevertheless be granted a pension of the same amount as the additional pension which he might have been granted if he had been so qualified.
Similar provision is made in the Police Pensions Regulations.
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