Widows' and Orphans' Pensions Act, 1935

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Restriction on grant of widow's pension to widow of man over sixty at date of marriage.

28.—The widow of a man who had attained the age of sixty years at the date of the marriage shall not, if the marriage takes place after the 11th day of April, 1935, be entitled to a widow's pension unless either—

(a) there is a child of the marriage; or

(b) at the date of the death of her husband three or more years have elapsed since the date of the marriage; or

(c) she was immediately before the marriage in receipt of a widow's pension; or

(d) she would immediately before the marriage have been in receipt of a widow's pension, but for disqualification by reason of cohabitation.