LEEWARD
ISLANDS.

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Pensions t9
dependants
when an
ofticer dies as
a result of
injuries 1e-
ceived or
disease con-
tracted in the
discharge of
his duties.

Pensions (Amendment) — No. 4 of 195).

(+) Notwithstanding the aa con-
tained in subsections (1) and (2) of this
section the Governor may in any case where
the amount of the gratuity p avable thereunder
does not exceed the sum of four hundred and
eighty dollars, dispense with the production of
probate or letters of administration and cause
the gratuity to be paid to the dependant or
dependants of the officer and, where there is
more than one such dependant, may divide the
gratuity among the dependauts in such pro-
portion as he may think fit.

17.

(1) Where an officer dies—

(a) in the actual discharge of his
duty by some myjury specifically attribu-
table to the natare of his duty which i
not wholly or mainly duc to, or seriously
averavated by, his own serious and cul-
pable negligence or misconduct; or

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(6) as a result of contracting a
disease to which he is specifically exposed
hy the nature of his duty, not being a
disense wholly or mainly due to, or
seriously aggravated by, his own serious
and culpable negligence or misconduct,

while in the service of the Government of the
Solony, and such death oecurs within seven
year's of the date of the injury or contracting

the disease, it shall be lawful for ya (aovernor

to vrant, i inion to the vrant, io any, made

to his) legal = repreventative under
section 16 ee: this ¢

Scot—

if the deceased officer leaves a widow,
a pension to her, while unmarried at
-a rate not exeecding ten-sixtieths of
kis annual pensionable emoluments

(i)