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Widowers And Orphans Pension Act (No. 24 of 1983) - Sect 14

Computation of pension

14.
(1) Where a contributor dies on or after the appointed date, the pension payable under this Act to her widower or orphan shall be determined in accordance with the following provisions :
(a) where such contributor dies while in the public service or having retired from the public service before reaching the age of compulsory retirement or after having been retired from the public service of any Council other than on the grounds set out- in the Establishments Code, the amount of such pension shall -
(i) if the period of her pensionable service at the- time of her death or retirement, as the case may be, is less than twenty-five years, be an amount equal to the pension payable under the Minutes on Pensions either for a period of twenty-five years' pensionable service or for a period of pensionable service which she, if she had hot died or retired, would have completed upon reaching the age of compulsory retirement, whichever is the shorter,
(ii) if the period of her pensionable service at the time of her death or retirement, as the case may be, is not less than twenty-five years, be an amount equal to the pension payable under the Minutes on Pensions for that period of pensionable service;
(b) where such officer dies after having retired or having been retired from the public service on the ground of having reached the age of compulsory retirement;; or on any ground set out in this Establishments Code, such pension shall be an amount equal to the pension payable under the Minutes on Pensions for her period of pensionable service;
(c) where such officer after having been appointed " permanently to a statutory body with the approval of Government dies while in the service of such statutory body or in any other statutory body to which she had been subsequently, transferred or dies after having retired or having been retired in pensionable circumstances from the statutory body to which she had been permanently appointed from Government service or from any other statutory body to which she had been subsequently transferred, the amount of such pension shall be an amount equal to the pension payable under the Minutes on Pensions for the period of pensionable service.
(2) In this section -


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