S.L. 111.1 Art. 12Allowances to disabled persons in respect of wives.

(1) Where an injury in respect of which a pension may be awarded under article 11 of this Scheme is a qualifying injury which may be compensated on the higher scale and the person who sustained the injury has a wife, there may be awarded under this article in respect of that injury an allowance in respect of that injury in accordance with the following provisions of this article.

(2) Where the person who sustained the injury is residing with his wife, an allowance may be awarded to him at a weekly rate not exceeding the sum which bears to the sum of thirty-three euros and seventy-eight cents (33.78) the same proportion as the degree of disablement caused by that injury bears to one hundred per cent.

(3) Where the person who sustained the injury is not residing with his wife, an allowance may be awarded to him or to his wife as the Committee may determine at such rate (not exceeding the rate calculated in accordance with sub-article (2)) as the Committee may think fit: Provided that, unless the Committee in the special circumstances of any particular case otherwise directs, an allowance shall not be awarded unless the person who sustained the injury is contributing to a reasonable extent to the support of his wife.