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widow; or
       (b) the widow of—
            (i) a male contributor who, having attained the maximum age for retirement, died before retirement; or
            (ii) a male pensioner who retired after attaining the maximum age for retirement,
       is in receipt of, or entitled to, a pension at the commencement of this section,
the pension that would be payable to the widow under the provisions of this Act other than this section shall be increased by one-half of the amount (if any) by which the pension which would have been payable to the contributor or pensioner, as the case may be, would have been increased under the last preceding sub-section if—
       (c) in the case of a contributor referred to in paragraph (a) of this sub-section, he had retired immediately before his death;
       (d) in the case of a contributor referred to in sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (b) of this sub-section, he had retired after the commencement of this section at the age at which he in fact died; or
       (e) in the case of a pensioner referred to in sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (b) of this sub-section, he had not died before the commencement of this section.
"(3.) The amount by which a pension is increased in pursuance of either of the last two preceding sub-sections is payable from the Fund without contribution by the Commonwealth.".
(2.) Amounts paid by the Commonwealth in pursuance of subsection (3.) of section twenty-nine b of the Principal Act, being amounts paid in respect of a period after the thirtieth day of June, One thousand nine hundred; and fifty-two, shall be repaid to the Commonwealth from the Fund.

(3.) Where a person who was a contributor retired not less than one year after attaining the maximum age for retirement and is, at the commencement of this section, in receipt of, or entitled to, a pension, there shall be paid to him a sum equal to the amount by which the amount of pension which he has received under the Superannuation Act 1922–1951, or under that Act as amended, in respect of the period from and including the fourth day of July, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-two, or the day after the date of his retirement, whichever was the later, to and including the day before the day on which this Act received the Royal Assent is less than the amount of pension which he would have received in respect of that period if sub-section (1.) of this section had come into operation on the fourth day of July. One thousand nine hundred and fifty-two.
(4.) Where the widow of—
       (a) a male contributor who died after completing not less than one year's service after attaining