Cap. 318 Art. 96Separate pensions andsplitbonusand split additional bonus. Re-numbered by: XXIV. 1993.2.

(1) Subject to the provisions of sub-article (2), a married person who is in receipt of a pension payable at the married rate under the provisions of articles 27 and 66 shall have such pension and any Bonus and, or, Additional Bonus payable to him/her under article 85 apportioned equally between both spouses -

(a) where either one of the spouses requests the Director that such half pension and/or half Bonus and, or, half

Additional Bonus be paid direct to the other spouse; or

(b) where the spouses are separated and no de jure mention is made in the judgment or contract of separation with regard to the apportionment or otherwise of such pension and, or, Bonus and, or, Additional Bonus:

Provided that such apportionment shall only take effect from the date when the next payment of such pension and, or, Bonus and, or, Additional Bonus is due following a written request to this effect from any one of the two parties concerned.

(2) The provisions of sub-article (1) shall not apply where either one of the spouses is already in receipt of any pension and, or, Bonus and, or, Additional Bonus under this Act in his/her own right or where such pension as is referred to in the said sub-article

(1) is being paid in addition to any other pension payable under this Act.

(3) Where by any court judgment or as a result of any lawful agreement between a married couple any pension payable under the provisions of this Act is being paid wholly or partly to the spouse of the pensioner, the Bonus and the Additional Bonus payable under article 85 shall be paid wholly to the pensioner unless there is a court judgment to the contrary or unless the married couple otherwise agree.