No. 4 of 1955. Pensions (Amendment) 9
(6) For the purposes of this section—

(a) the word “brother” includes,
in relation to a person, every male child
of his father or his mother;

(b) the word ‘¢echild” shall in-
clude—

(i) a posthumous child;

(ii) a stepschild or illegitimate
child born before the date of the
injury or contracting the disease, as
the case may be, “and wholly or
mainly dependent upon the deceased
officer for support; and

(iii) an adopted child, adopted in
a manner recognized by law, before
the date of the injury or contracting
the disease, as the case may be, and
dependent as aforesaid ;

(c) the expression ‘“ incapacitated ”
means in rélation to a child, incapa-
ble by reason of some specific bodily or
mental disability of earning his own liv-
ing, anda child who is in any event too
youn to earn his own living shall be
treated as incapacitated for the purposes
of this section if it appears that, by
reason of any specific bodily or ment)
disability, he will be incapable of earning
his own living when he attrins the age
at which he would otherwise be capable
of doing 30;

(d) the word “mother” includes,
in relation to a person, his stepmother
and a female person by whom he has
been adopted;

(¢) the word “sister” includes, in

relation to a person, every female child
of his father or his mother.”

5. The amendment specified in the second
column of the Schedule to this Act, being a minor
amendment to certain sections of the Principal Act,
shall be made in the provisions to that Act specified
in the first column of that Sehedule.

LEEWARD
IsLANDS.

Minor amend.
ments to the
Principal Act.