Pakistan Bar Council Employees Pension Rules — section 13

13. To whom family pension is payable:- (1) Family pension shall be payable:

(a)to the widow or, as the case may be, the widower of the employee;

(b)if there are more widows than one, to all the widows in equal shares;

(c)if the widows are more than one and the number of widows and children, (except sons above the age of eighteen years and married daughters):

(i)does not exceed four, to the surviving widows and children in equal shares; &

(ii)exceeds four one-fourth of the pension to each widow, and the balance, if any, to each child in equal shares.

(d)if there is no widow or, as the case may be, widower, to the eldest son;

(e)if there is no son, to the eldest unmarried daughter, and if she marries or dies, then to the next eldest unmarried daughter;

(f)if there is no unmarried daughter, to the eldest widowed daughter;

(g)if there is no widowed daughter, to the eldest widow of the deceased son of the employee;

(h)if there is no widow of the deceased son, to the eldest son of a deceased son of the employee;

(i)if there is no son of a deceased son of the employee, to the eldest unmarried daughter of a deceased son of the employee &

(j)if there is no unmarried daughter of a deceased son of the employee, to the eldest widowed daughter of a deceased son of the employee.

(2)Where no person referred to in rule (1) survives, family pension may be paid to:

(a)the father of the employee;

(b)if the father does not survive, to the mother if she has not remarried;

(3)If a family pension ceases to be payable to a member of the family of the deceased employee on account of his death or otherwise before the expiry of the period upto which it is payable, it shall be paid to the member of the family next in order specified in rule (1).