Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1AA) A male person is not to be treated as a male pensioner for the purposes of this section merely because the person, at the time of his death, was receiving associate pension under Part VIA.
(1) On the death of a male pensioner, pension shall, subject to this section, be paid to his widow as follows:
(a) during her life--five‑eighths of a pension payable to her husband at the time of his death; and
(b) in respect of each child of the widow who is an eligible child (other than a child born after the death of the pensioner unless the child is also the child of the pensioner), and in respect of each child of the pensioner who is an eligible child--a pension at the rate of $312 per annum, as indexed in accordance with subsection 84C(2), and an additional pension at a rate equal to one‑sixth of the rate at which pension payable under paragraph (a) is payable to the widow.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), the pension payable to the widow of a male pensioner during her life shall, in any case where:
(a) the male pensioner had commuted any portion of his pension;
(b) the rate of the pension of the male pensioner had been reduced by virtue of subsection 42A(9);
(c) an amount had been deducted from the last fortnightly instalment of the pension of the male pensioner under section 50;
be calculated upon the rate of pension that would have been payable to the male pensioner at the time of his death if no portion of his pension had been commuted, the rate of his pension had not been reduced or the amount had not been deducted from his pension, as the case may be.
(3) If:
(a) the male pensioner, at the time of his death, was in receipt of a pension, being invalidity benefit; and
(b) the Authority is satisfied that his death was due to:
(i) a physical or mental impairment that was the cause, or one of the causes, of the invalidity or the physical or mental incapacity by reason of which the member was retired; or
(ii) a physical or mental impairment causally connected with a physical or mental impairment referred to in subparagraph (i);
pension shall be paid to his widow at the rate or rates at which, under section 55, pension is payable to the widow of a married member who was a contributor and died before retirement.
(3A) If:
(a) a male person who is entitled to invalidity benefit dies and, at the time of his death, he was classified as Class C under subsection 51(2) as a result of a reclassification under section 53 but was not entitled to a pension; and
(b) the Authority is satisfied that his death was due to:
(i) a physical or mental impairment that was the cause, or one of the causes, of the invalidity or the physical or mental incapacity by reason of which the member was retired; or
(ii) a physical or mental impairment causally connected with a physical or mental impairment referred to in subparagraph (i);
pension is payable to his widow at the rate or rates at which, under section 55, pension is payable to the widow of a married member who was a contributor and died before retirement.
(3B) In spite of subsections (1), (2), (3) and (3A), if, on any of the 7 pay‑days immediately following the death of a male pensioner, the rate at which pension would, apart from this subsection, be payable to his widow is less than the rate (in this subsection called the putative rate ) at which the pension payable to him immediately before his death would be payable to him on that day if he had not died, the widow is entitled to a pension payable at a rate equal to the putative rate.
(4) Subject to subsection (5), on the death of a widow to whom this section applies, there shall be payable in respect of each child of the widow who is an eligible child (other than a child born after the death of the pensioner unless the child is also the child of the pensioner), and in respect of each child of the male pensioner who is an eligible child, a pension at the rate of $5,000 per annum, as indexed in accordance with subsection 84C(2), and an additional pension at a rate equal to one‑eighth of the rate at which pension payable under paragraph (1)(a), or under subsection (3), as the case may be would, but for her death, have been payable to the widow.
(5) Where the number of children in respect of whom pensions are payable
under subsection (4) because of the widow's death is such that the sum of
the rates of all the pensions exceeds a rate equal to 1 
of the rate at
which pension payable under paragraph (1)(a) or subsection (3), as
the case requires, would, but for her death, have been payable to her, then,
while that position exists, there is payable in respect of each of the
children, instead of the pensions described in subsection (4), a pension
calculated by dividing the number of children into the rate exceeded.