Social Security Act (Cap. 318), article 37

37. A Survivor’s Pension payable under the foregoing articles shall be reassessed annually in accordance with the provisions of article 59(1); and for the purposes of such reassessment the pension that would have been payable to the deceased pensioner in accordance with article 53 shall be determined as provided in article 59(3): Provided that any such reassessed Survivor’s Pension shall be such as shall ensure to the widow an increase in pension of not less than two-thirds of the wage increase that is required by law to be awarded generally; sohowever that, where the yearly average of contributions paid by or credited to her husband in accordance with the provisions of articles 53 and 55 is less than 50 but not less than 15, the proportion of two-thirds referred to above in this proviso shall be multiplied by the proportion that the yearly average of such contributions bears to 50, and the result of such multiplication shall substitute the said proportion of two-thirds. Disqualification from certain benefits. Re-numbered by: XXIV. 1993.2. Amended by: XXV.1994.2.