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payable to her or him under paragraph (a) of sub-section (2) of section 19; or
    (c) where the benefit became payable on the death of a widow or widower referred to in sub-section (3)—the amount of the annual rate of annuity that would have been payable to the widow or widower if she or he had not died.
"(5) In this section—
'child', in relation to a person, includes a child adopted by that person;
'eligible child' means—
    (a) a child who has not attained the age of sixteen years; or
    (b) a child who—
            (i) has attained the age of sixteen years but has not attained the age of twenty-five years; and
            (ii) is receiving full-time education at a school, college or university.".

(2) Where a person died before the date of commencement of this Act leaving a widow who was, immediately before that date, entitled to a pension in pursuance of the Parliamentary Retiring Allowances Act 1948 or that Act as amended, the widow is, from the commencement of this Act, entitled, in lieu of that pension, to an annuity at the rate at which she would be entitled to an annuity if section 19 of the Principal Act as amended by this Part had been in force immediately before the death of the person.

(3) Section 19aa of the Principal Act as amended by this Part applies, from the commencement of this Act, in relation to a person who died after the commencement of the Parliamentary Retiring Allowances Act 1948 and before the commencement of this Act in like manner as it applies in relation to a person who dies after the commencement of this Act.

Additional benefit to Prime Minister.
18. Section 19a of the Principal Act is amended—
    (a) by omitting from sub-section (1) the word "pension" and substituting the words "retiring allowance
    (b) by omitting sub-section (2) and substituting the following sub-section:—
    "(2) Where a person who has held office as specified in paragraph (a) of sub-section (1) has died or dies (either while holding office as Prime Minister or after ceasing so to hold office), and that person is survived by a widow or widower, the widow or widower shall be paid an annuity, during her or his life-time but ceasing upon her or his re-marriage, at a rate equal to one-half of the rate of the retiring allowance calculated, in relation to the service of her late husband or his late wife as Prime Minister, in accordance with the scale set out in sub-section (2a).";
    (c) by omitting from sub-section (2a) the word "pension" (wherever occurring) and substituting the words "retiring allowance and
    (d) by omitting sub-sections (3) and (4) and substituting