ADVOKS GLOBAL · KENYA
Asian Officers’ Family Pensions Act
30. Pensions to adopted children
Edition: 1971-06-04 · In force
30. Pensions to adopted children
(1)A child adopted by a member while he is married shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to be the child of the member by that marriage if—(a)the member adopted the child before he retired from the public service; and(b)the member was under the age of fifty-five years at the time of the adoption; and(c)the adoption was in accordance with the law of the place where the member was resident at the time of the adoption.(2)The child of a member who is adopted by any other person—(a)in the lifetime of the member or while a pension is being paid under this Act to the mother of such child, shall be deemed, for the purposes of this Act, to have died at the date of the adoption;(b)after the death of the member shall, if such child is being paid a pension or a share of a pension under this Act, continue to be paid such pension or such share.(3)Nothing in this section shall entitle an adopted child to be paid any pension or a share in any pension where the payment to him of such pension or share would diminish the pension or the share of any pension immediately payable or being paid at the date on which this section comes into operation to the widow or to any child or children by marriage of the member.(4)The provisions of this section shall have effect notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the law relating to adoption now in force, or hereafter enacted, in Kenya.