Constabulary and Police (Ireland) Act 1918

3 Further provisions as to pensions to widows of constables.

(1) Paragraph (9) of the Second Schedule to the [46 & 47 Vict. c. 14.] Constabulary and Police (Ireland) Act, 1883, in its application to a pension payable under section four of that Act to the widow of a constable who has died on or after the first day of September nineteen hundred and eighteen, or dies after the passing of this Act, shall have effect as if " twenty-six pounds " were substituted for " ten pounds. "

(2) Where the widow is one to whom a pension or .gratuity may be granted under section four of the Constabulary and Police (Ireland) Act, 1883, she shall not be entitled to a pension or gratuity under that section unless she accepts the same in lieu of a pension under this Act.

(3) A pension payable to a widow of a constable under this Act or under section four of the Constabulary and Police (Ireland) Act, 1883, shall, if at any time she remarries, be suspended, but in the event of her again becoming a widow shall be restored on proof to the satisfaction of the, police authority that her circumstances are such that the pension is necessary for her support, and that she is of good character and deserving of bounty from public funds, and accordingly in paragraph (12) of the schedule to the said Act the words " remains a widow, and " shall be repealed, and that paragraph as so amended shall apply to pensions payable under this Act.