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1. Short title and date of operation
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This Act may be cited as the Widowers and Orphans
Pension Act, No. 24 of 1983, and shall come into operation on such date as the Minister may appoint by Order published in the Gazette (hereafter in this Act referred to as the
“appointed date”).