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of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after the word "pension" (first occurring) the words ",as set out in the Second Schedule to this Act,".

Contributor remaining in Service after attaining maximum age for retirement.
23. Section twenty-nine a of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (2.) the words "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" and inserting in their stead the words "an amount ascertained by multiplying that portion of the pension that is equivalent to the contributions made by her husband by the percentage that would have been applicable under the last preceding sub-section in relation to his pension".

Pension to widow and children on death of contributor
24. Section thirty-one of the Principal Act is amended—
       (a) by omitting from paragraph (a) of sub-section (1.) the words "one half" and inserting in their stead the word "five-eighths";
       (b) by inserting after sub-section (1.) the following subsection:—
       "(1a.) In the application of the last preceding subsection to the pension of a widow whose husband elected that section seventeen aa of this Act should

       not apply to him, the reference in paragraph (a) of that sub-section to five-eighths of the pension for which her husband was contributing at the time of his death shall be read as a reference to one-half of that pension."; and
       (c) by omitting from sub-section (2.) the words "the last preceding sub-section" and inserting in their stead the words "sub-section (1.) of this section".

Pension to widow and children on death of pensioner.
25. Section thirty-two of the Principal Act is amended—
       (a) by omitting from paragraph (a) of sub-section (1.) the words "one half" and inserting in their stead the word "five-eighths";
       (b) by omitting from that paragraph the words ",or pension at the rate of Forty-five pounds ten shillings per annum whichever is the greater";
       (c) by inserting after sub-section (1.) the following subsections:—
       "(1a.) In the application of the last preceding sub-section to the pension of a widow whose husband elected that section seventeen aa of this Act should not apply to him, the reference in paragraph (a) of that sub-section to five-eighths of the pension payable to her husband at the time of his death shall be read as a reference to one-half of that pension.
       "(1b.) Where a person who—
          (a) is in receipt of a pension under section twenty-nine or thirty of this Act; and
             (b) at the time when she became a contributor was a married woman whose husband was of unsound mind and unlikely to