LEEWARD
ISLANDS.

Amendment of.
section 161)
of the Princi-
pal Act.

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Amendment of
section 17 of
the Principal
Act.

2 Pensions (Amendment) No. of 1956.

(2) The foregoing amendment shall be deemed
to have had effect from the Ist day of January,
1952.

(3). Subsection (1) of section 16 of the
Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution
of the words “ For the purposes of this section”
for the words “ For the purposes of this subsection ”

_ appearing in the first line of paragraph (6) of the

subsection.

4. The following amendments are hereby
made to section 17 of the Principal Act:—

(1) Subsection (1) is amended by—

(a) inserting after the words
“legal personal representative ’’ the
words “or in addition to the pay-
ment, if any, made to his dependant
or dependants’; and

(6) deleting the words “ para-
graphs (ii) and (ii)” in paragraph
(vii), the words “ paragraph (i1)” in
proviso (a), and the words “ para-
graph (ii) or paragraph (ili)” in

# proviso (6), and substituting in each
case the words ‘paragraphs (il),
(ili) or (iv)”.

(2) Subsection 3 is amended by—

(a) substituting a colon for the
full-stop at the end thereof; and

(6) adding thereto the follow-
ing proviso—

“Provided that this subsection.
shall not apply in the case of an
officer who is eligible to receive
an award under subsection (4) of
this section”.

(3) Subsection (6) is amended by—

(a) relettering paragraphs (a)
and (¢) of tie subsection as para-
graphs (e) and (/) respectively; and