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by virtue of the enactment of section sixteen b of the Superannuation Act 1922-1947, a prescribed pensioner became entitled to elect to contribute for an additional unit, or additional units, of pension under sub-section (2.) of that section in relation to—
            (i) an increase of salary to which he became entitled on or before the fifth day of April, One thousand nine hundred and forty-seven; or
            (ii) a prescribed increase of salary to which he became entitled after that date and before the date on which that section came into- operation; and
       (b) the units of pension for which he had completed his contributions before that last-mentioned date, together with that additional unit or those additional units, did not exceed sixteen in number,
his entitlement to elect to contribute for that additional unit or those additional units shall not be taken into account for the purposes of the last preceding sub-section.
(5.) The increase in pension provided for by sub-section (2.) of this section—
       (a) shall, in the case of a person to whom sub-section (1.) of section fifty a of the Principal Act applied immediately before the commencement of this Act, be calculated as if he had then been in receipt of a pension under the Principal Act equal to the pension to which he would have been entitled if that sub-section had not so applied to him; and
       (b) is not payable to a person (including a person referred to in the last preceding paragraph) in respect of a period during which sub-section (1.) of section fifty a of the Superannuation Act 1922-1957 applies to him except to the extent, if any, necessary to give effect to paragraph (b) of that sub-section.
(6.) The amount of pension payable to a person who, immediately before the commencement of this Act, was in receipt of, or entitled to, a pension by virtue of being the widow of—
       (a) a pensioner who, if he had not died and had been in receipt of pension immediately before the commencement of this Act, would have been entitled to an increase in the amount of that pension under subsection (2.) of this section; or
       (b) a person who died before retirement but, if he had retired on the day on which he in fact died and had been in receipt of pension immediately before the commencement of this Act, would have been entitled to an increase in the amount of that pension under that sub-section,

is increased by the same fraction: as would have been applicable to her husband's pension under that sub-section.
(7.) The increase in pension provided for by the last preceding sub-section is not payable to any widow in respect of