Section 36: Children’s pension
consolidated text (as at 2013, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
36. Children’s pension
(1) A children’s pension shall be granted where, and be paid so long as,
there are persons for whose benefit it may accrue.
(2) The Board may authorise the payment of a children’s pension to a
child who has attained the age of 18 and is not receiving full-time education,
where it is satisfied that there are compassionate grounds for the payment of
the pension.
(3) A children’s pension shall not accrue for the benefit of a female child
who at the time of the death of the deceased was civilly married.
(4) (a) Where after the death of the deceased, a female child marries civilly, she shall then cease to be a person for whose benefit a children’s pension
may accrue.
(b) Where a pension ceases on the marriage of a female child, the
Board may, on such marriage being annulled or dissolved by a decree of a
competent Court, if it thinks fit, restore the pension as from such date as it
may determine.
(5) A children’s pension shall be paid to the legal guardian of the children
or, where there is no legal guardian, to such person as may be appointed by
the Board under section 37 and such pension shall be applied for the benefit
of the children of the deceased to whom the pension accrues.
[S. 36 amended by s. 6 (g) of Act 20 of 2011 w.e.f. 1 July 2008.]