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Window's augmented award
6.—(1) This Regulation shall apply to as window of a special constable whose death is the result of an injury received without his own default in the execution of his duty where one of the following conditions is satisfied, namely that—
(a)he was attacked by a person or persons is a manner which was intrinsically likely to cause death and death ensued as a result of the attack, or
(b)the injury was received in the course of duties performed for the immediate purpose of effecting an arrest or of preventing an escape or rescue from legal custody, or
(c)the injury was received in the course of duties performed—
(i)for the immediate purpose of saving the life of another person or of preventing loss of human life, and
(ii)in circumstances in which there was an intrinsic likelihood of his receiving a fatal injury, or
(d)the police authority are of the opinion that one of the preceding conditions may be satisfied, and that this Regulation should apply, or
(e)the police authority are of the opinion that the injury was received otherwise than as aforesaid but in the course of duties performed in such circumstances that it would be inequitable if there were not payable in respect of him such an award as would have been payable had one of the conditions specified in sub-paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) been satisfied.
(2) For the purpose of calculating a widow's special pension and gratuity payable to a widow to whom this Regulation applies, Regulation 28 of the principal Regulations (as applied by Regulation 5 of these Regulations) shall have effect subject to the provisions of Regulation 29 of the principal Regulations.
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