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79 PDFTitle:SURVIVING SPOUSES' AND CHILDREN'S PENSIONS ORDINANCEGazette Number:
Section:10Heading:Children's pensions: beneficiariesVersion Date:30/06/1997

(1) A children's pension shall be granted if, and be paid so long as and whenever, there are persons for whose benefit it can enure.
(2) Subject to this section, the persons for whose benefit a children's pension can enure, are the children of the deceased who are for the time being in their period of dependency. (Amended 3 of 1993 s. 13)
(3) A children's pension cannot enure-

        (a) for the benefit of any person born more than 10 months after the deceased had ceased to be a public officer;
        (b) for the benefit of any person by reason that he is the adopted child of the deceased if he was born or, as the case may be, adopted, after the termination of the deceased's last marriage or after the deceased had ceased to be a public officer; or
        (c) for the benefit of any person by reason that he is the child of a wife of the deceased, if he was born more than 10 months after the termination of the marriage.
(4) A children's pension cannot enure for the benefit of any person by reason that he is the step-child or adopted child of the deceased unless he was wholly or mainly dependent upon the deceased at the time of death.
(5) (Repealed 3 of 1993 s. 13)