S.L. 111.1 Art. 19Pensions to widows and dependent minors of deceased pensioners, etc.

(1) Where a person has died as the direct result of a relevant qualifying injury which is not an injury which may be compensated on the higher scale and there is -

(a) a widow of that person with whom that person was at the date of his death residing or to whose support that person was at that date contributing to a reasonable extent; or

(b) where there is no such widow, a dependent minor of that person, that widow or dependent minor may, if in need, be awarded under this article in respect of that injury a pension in accordance with the following provisions.

(2) A pension under this article shall only be awarded if the need of the widow or dependent minor arises solely from the fact that, by reason of the death of the deceased person, a pension, superannuation allowance, annuity or other income of which the deceased person was in receipt at the date of his death is no longer available (otherwise than by virtue of a disposition made by the deceased person) for the support of the widow or dependent minor.

(3) A pension under this article shall be at such weekly rate as may appear to the Committee to be appropriate to the circumstances of the widow or dependent minor but shall not exceed -

(a) in the case of the widow, the rate of the pension and of any allowances in respect of dependent minors of the deceased person;

(b) in the case of the dependent minor, the rate of the pension, which could have been awarded under this Scheme to that widow or that dependent minor, as the case may be, if the injury sustained by the deceased person had been an injury which may be compensated on a higher scale.