Commonwealth Numbered Acts

DEFENCE FORCE RETIREMENT AND DEATH BENEFITS ACT 1973 No. 81 of 1973 - SECT 39

39. Where a member of the scheme who is a recipient member dies and is
survived by a widow, then, subject to sections 47 and 75, the widow is
entitled to a pension at a rate equal to five-eighths of the rate at which
retirement pay or invalidity pay was payable to the deceased member
immediately before his death or, if the member had commuted a portion of his
retirement pay under section 24, at a rate equal to five-eighths of the rate
at which retirement pay would have been payable to the member immediately
before his death if he had not so commuted a portion of his retirement pay.