2. The following section is hereby inserted immediately after section 28 of the Widowers and Orphans Pension Act, No. 24 of 1983, (hereinafter referred to as the "Principal enactment") and shall have effect as section 28A of the principal enactment :-
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| | (1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Act, where on or after the coming into operation of this section, a contributor who is a widow without children"
| | | (a) retires from the public services on pension ; or |
| (b) leaves the public service by resignation or otherwise ; or |
| (c) dies whilst in the public service, |
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| | (2) Any contributor who receives a refund under this section shall have no further claim upon the fund. | | |
| | (3) Notwithstanding any thing to the contrary in this act any contributor referred to in subsection (1) who has prior to the date on which this section comes into operation received a refund of any contribution may claim the benefit of this section only if she pays back the amount of such refund within one year from the said date together with compound interest thereon at two and a half per centum per annum. | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts