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Version status: Repealed | Document consolidation status: As enacted, without amendments. Fully repealed.
Version date: 1 December 2005 - onwards
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60. Death benefit for widows and widowers and increases for qualified children, etc.

Repealed from 1 December 2005

(1) The widow of the deceased shall be entitled to death benefit if at his death she either was living with him or was being, or would but for the relevant accident have been, wholly or mainly maintained by him.

(2) In the case of a widow, death benefit shall be a pension at the weekly rate set out in column (2) of Part I of the second Schedule, and if she has attained pensionable age and is living alone that rate shall be increased by the amount set out in column (7) of that Part.

(3) A pension under subsection (2) shall not be payable for any period after the remarriage of the widow.

(4) A widow shall be disqualified for receiving a pension under this section if and so long as she and any person are cohabiting as husband and wife.

(5) The widower of the deceased shall be entitled to death benefit if at her death he was being wholly or mainly maintained by her or would, but for the relevant accident, have been so maintained.

(6) In the case of a widower who was, at the death of t

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