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Death grant.
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5.—The following section is hereby inserted in the Act of 1952 as section 25B:
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“Death Grant
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25B. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, a death grant shall be payable, to such person or persons as may be prescribed, on the death of—
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(a) an insured person,
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(b) the wife or husband of an insured person,
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(c) the widow or widower of a deceased insured person, or
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(d) a qualified child,
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if the relevant contribution conditions are satisfied, but only one death grant shall be paid by virtue of this section on any one death.
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(2) For the purposes of this section, item 3 of Part II of the Third Schedule to this Act and paragraph 7 of the Fourth Schedule thereto ‘qualified child’ means a person—
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(a) who is under the age of eighteen at the date of death,
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(b) who is ordinarily resident in the State on that date, and
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(c) in respect of whose death the relevant contribution conditions for death grant are not satisfied by such person's insurance or the insurance of such person's wife or husband.”
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