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factor specified in column 3 of that Table opposite to the age specified in column 1 of that Table that was his age on retirement.";
      (b) by omitting from sub-section (2.) the word "percentage" and inserting in its stead the word "multiplier";
      (c) by omitting from sub-section (2a.) the word "percentage" and inserting in its stead the word "multiplier"; and
      (d) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-section:—
       "(4.) Where—
           (a) this section applies to the pension of a contributor or of the widow or widower of a contributor; and
           (b) the contributor was, immediately before his retirement or death, contributing for some units of pension at a rate based on a retiring age of sixty years and other units of pension at a rate based on a retiring age of sixty-five years,
     this section applies to and in relation to the pension as if it consisted of two pensions, one such pension being attributable to the first-mentioned units and the other such pension being attributable to the second-mentioned units.".
(2.) The amendments made by the last preceding sub-section shall be deemed to have come into operation on the first day of July, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-two, and apply only in relation to contributors who retire or die on or after that date.

4. Sections 46, 47 and 48 of the Principal Act are repealed and the following sections inserted in their stead:—

Pension to spouse and children on death of contributor.
"46.—(1.) Where a contributor dies before retirement leaving a widow or widower, there shall, subject to the next succeeding sub-section, be paid to the widow or widower until she or he dies or remarries pension equal to five-eighths (or, if the contributor elected that section twenty-six of this Act should not apply to him—one-half) of the pension for which the contributor was contributing at the time of his or her death.
"(2.) Pension shall not be paid to the widower of a female contributor under the last preceding sub-section unless, in the opinion of the Board, he was wholly or substantially dependent upon her immediately before her death, and pension under the last preceding sub-section shall not continue to be paid to the widower of a female contributor in respect of any period during which, in the opinion of the Board, the circumstances of the widower are such that, if those circumstances had existed immediately before the death of the contributor, the widower would not have been wholly or substantially dependent upon the contributor at that time.
"(3.) Where a contributor dies before retirement leaving a widow or widower, there shall, in addition to any pension that may be payable to her or him