Widow’s allowance

(1) Subject to this Act, where a person who, (a) is in receipt of a pension; or (b) has served as a legislator for periods amounting in the aggregate to ten years or for two full parliamentary terms amounting to eight years or more, whichever is less, 15 dies leaving a widow after the commencement of this Act, there shall be paid to the widow during her lifetime a widow’s allowance at an annual rate equivalent to one-half of the pension, which, (i) in the case of a person mentioned in paragraph (a) was being paid to him; or (ii) in the case of a person mentioned in paragraph (b), would have been payable to him with effect from the date of his death if he had not died but had satisfied the requirements of section 5 of this Act for the award of a pension and had been awarded a pension computed in accordance with section 8 of this Act. (2) A widow’s allowance under this section, (a) shall be paid monthly in arrears in equal instalments as far as possible; (b) shall, subject to subsection (3), if the widow is in receipt of a pension by virtue of having been herself a contributor under the Act, cease to be payable; (c) shall, subject to subsection (3), if the widow is in receipt of salary as legislator, cease to be payable during the period in respect of which the widow is in receipt of such salary. (3) Where the rate of widow’s allowance exceeds the rate of pension or the rate of salary, as the case may be, nothing in paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of this section shall prevent the payment of the widow’s allowance to the extent of such excess. 16