Section 7: Pension and gratuity to be paid to dependants, etc., where a serviceman dies in service.

(1) Where a serviceman dies in the service after the completion of the minimum period of qualifying service, there shall be paid to his legal personal representatives, or to any person being a relation or dependant of such serviceman-
(a) a gratuity equal to one year's salary of such serviceman, up to 31 March, 1978 and the gratuity he would have been entitled to if he had retired on the date of his death after 31 March, 1978; and
(b) such pension as would have been payable to the serviceman if he had retired at the date of his death.
(2) Where a serviceman dies before completing the minimum period of qualifying service, his designated survivors shall be paid a death gratuity of only one year's salary.
(3) Any pension payable under subsection (1) of this section shall be paid to any person entitled thereto for a period expiring at the end of five years after the death of the serviceman, so however that a lump sum representing five years' pensions may be paid forthwith to the person entitled thereto.