28. Refund of contribu-tions to widows without pensionable children

Where a contributor, who is a widow without pensionable children, retires from the public service on pension or where a contributor who is a widow without pensionable children, leaves the public.service by resigna-tion, or otherwise or where a contributor who is a widow without pensionable children, dies whilst in the public service, such contributor or legal representative of such contributor, as the case may be, shall be entitled to a refund

‘of the entirety of her repayable contributions with com-pound interest thereon at two and a half per centum,

29 Where a married contributor leaves the public service she shall, if she is not eligible for a pension under the

Minutes on Pensions, be entitled to a refund of the entirety of her contributions under this Act without interest and upon the refund of such contributions such contributor or any person claiming through or under her shall cease to be entitled to any benefits under this Act.