Cap. 318 Art. 62Pension payable to the single rate to a married person. Re-numbered by: XXIV. 1993.2.

Where a married person becomes invalid or suffers any permanent loss of physical or mental faculty arising out of his employment or self-occupation in accordance with article 29, or reaches pension age on or after the 1st day of April, 1978, and becomes entitled to receive a pension payable under articles 26 or

29 or under Part V (excluding a Two-Thirds Pension) of this Act, then, if his/her spouse is in his/her own right in receipt of any pension payable under the aforementioned articles or to a Two-Thirds Pension in accordance with the provisions of this Part, the pension payable shall be paid at the rate applicable for a single person: Provided that if either one of the spouses, being already in receipt of a pension payable under the said articles or Part, shall renounce to the right aforesaid, then the pension payable to the spouse who retains his/her pension right shall be paid at the rate applicable for a married person.