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such rate as the Trust determines, not being a rate higher than the rate of pension that would be payable in respect of the child if he were a child referred to in the last preceding sub-section.
"(6.) Subject to this section, the benefit in respect of an eligible child is a pension at the rate of Five hundred and twenty dollars per annum or at the rate of such amount per annum as is determined in accordance with the next succeeding sub-section, whichever rate is the higher.
"(7.) The amount to be determined for the purposes of the last preceding sub-section is an amount ascertained by dividing by four (or, if the number of eligible children of the deceased person in respect of whom pension is payable under this section is greater than four, by the number of those children) an amount equal to—
       (a) where the benefit became payable on the death of a widower or a person referred to in paragraph (b) of sub-section (2.) of this section—the amount of the annual rate of pension that would have been payable to his widow if he had died leaving a widow entitled to pension under this Act;
       (b) where the benefit became payable on the death of a widow referred to in paragraph (a) of sub-section (2.) of this

       section—five-twelfths of the amount of the annual rate of the parliamentary allowance to which she was entitled immediately before she died or became entitled to pension, as the case may be; or
       (c) where the benefit became payable on the death of a widow referred to in paragraph (c) of sub-section (2.) of this section—the amount of the annual rate of pension that would have been payable to her if pension had been payable to her under sub-section (2.) of the last preceding section.
"(8.) In this section—
       'child', in relation to a person, includes a child adopted by that person;
       'eligible child' means—
          (a) a child under the age of sixteen years; or
          (b) a child who—
             (i) has attained the age of sixteen years but is under the age of twenty-one years; and
             (ii) is receiving full-time education at a school, college or university.".
(2.) Pension payable in pursuance of section 19aa of the Principal Act as amended by this Act is not payable at a rate that exceeds Five hundred and twenty dollars per annum until the first fortnightly payment of pensions made after the date on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.

Benefits on death of contributor.
5. Section 22k of the Principal Act is amended by inserting in sub-section (3.), after the word "widow", the words "or is survived by a widow to