59Retrospective increase in certain widows' pensions

59 Retrospective increase in certain widows' pensions

(1) (a) Where immediately before the second day of January One thousand nine hundred and forty-eight the widow of a member of the force or of a pensioner was not entitled to receive any pension or was entitled to receive a pension of not more than $83.20 per annum, then as on and from the said second day of January and as long as a pension is payable to her a pension of $104 per annum shall be payable to such widow, and the necessary adjustments shall be made in respect of payments of pension to any such widow on and after the said second day of January;

(b) Where a member of the force or pensioner has died on or after the second day of January One thousand nine hundred and forty-eight and before the commencement of the Police Regulation (Amendment) Act 1948 and his widow was not entitled to receive any pension or was entitled to receive a pension of not more than $83.20 per annum, then as on and from the date of the death of the member or pensioner and as long as a pension is payable to her a pension of $104 per annum shall be payable to such widow, and the necessary adjustments shall be made in respect of payments of pension to any such widow on and after the date of the death of the pensioner.

(2) (a) The pension of any widow (other than a widow referred to in the last preceding subsection) of a member of the force or pensioner who died before the second day of January One thousand nine hundred and forty-eight shall as on and from the said second day of January and as long as a pension is payable to her be the pension payable immediately before the said second day of January plus twenty-five per centum, and the necessary adjustments shall be made in respect of payments of pension to any such widow on and after the said second day of January;

(b) Where a member of the force or pensioner has died on or after the second day of January One thousand nine hundred and forty-eight and before the commencement of the Police Regulation (Amendment) Act 1948 the pension of his widow (not being a widow referred to in the last preceding subsection) shall as on and from the date of the death of the member or pensioner and as long as a pension is payable to her be the pension payable as at the date of the death of the member or pensioner plus twenty-five per centum, and the necessary adjustments shall be made in respect of payments of pension to any such widow on and after the date of the death of the member or pensioner;

(c) Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing provisions of this subsection no pension payable to a widow shall by virtue of this subsection be so increased as to exceed at any time after the second day of January One thousand nine hundred and forty-eight—

(i) in the case of a widow's ordinary pension, the maximum pension payable under this Act appropriate to the relevant rank and service of her husband in the force;