2. Insertion of new sections 9A and 9B in Act…

The Widowers’ and Orphans’ Pension Act, No. 24

of 1983 (hereinafter referred to as the “principal enactment”)

is hereby amended by the insertion immediately after section 9 of that enactment, of the following new sections :—

9A. (1) Where any officer who is subject to deductions under this Act dies before reaching her age of retirement due to any act which constitutes an offence under the Emergency

Regulations for the time being in force or due to any natural disaster, the widower and the children of such officer shall notwithstanding any other provisions of this Act be entitled—

from the date of such death, to receive a pension calculated in accordance with the provisions of this Act, based on the salary such officer was drawing at the time of her death, till the date on which had she lived, such officer would have reached her age of retirement ; and

from and after the date on which she would have reached her age of retirement, to receive a pension calculated in accordance with the provision of this Act based on the revised salary, with all the increments to which, had she lived,

In calculating the pension for the purpose of subsection (1), the age of retirement shall be determined by the Director-General of Pensions, taking into consideration the circumstances of the death of the officer concerned, her period of service, and any other material particulars as applicable to each individual case.

Where any person who is a female and who holds a temporary or casual post in the public service dies while in service due to any act which constitutes an offence under the

from the date of such death, to receive a pension calculated in accordance with the provisons of this Act, based on the payment such person was drawing at the time of her death, till the date on which had she lived, she would have reached fifty-five years of age ; and

from and after the date on which she would have reached fifty-five years of age, to receive a pension with all the increments to which, had she lived, she would have been entitled to receive till she reached fifty-five years of age.

Any person to whom the provisions of subsection (3) applies shall be deemed to be a contributor under the Act, as from the date she joined the public service.

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Act, for the purpose of granting a pension under this section the officers referred to in subsection (1) of this section and the persons referred to in subsection (3) of this section shall be deemed to be constributors as from the date they joined the public service and shall be deemed to have paid the contributions due to the Fund in full, as at the date of their death.

For the purpose of this section—

who is specified in the Schedule GQ of the Minutes on Pensions ; and

who is entitled to a pension on the completion of five-years of service, shall be entitled, on the demise of such officer, to receive a pension computed on the basis of the salary drawn by such officer on her retirement, in accordance with the provisions