Section 5: Pension where President or Vice-President dies in office or subsequently

5. Pension where President or Vice-President dies in office or subsequently (1) Where a President or Vice-President dies either in office or after retirement, his spouse shall be paid— (a) for the first 12 months immediately after the death, an amount equivalent to the pension payable under section 4 (1); (b) after the first 12 months, an allowance equivalent to 50 per cent of the pension mentioned in paragraph (a), for the remainder of the spouse’s life. (2) For the purposes of subsection (1), the surviving spouse of the person who held the former office of Governor-General on 26 December 1983 shall be deemed to be the spouse of a President who died after retirement. [S. 5 amended by Act 17 of 1997; Act 18 of 1999.]