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"dependant"

in relation to a member or a pensioner, means—

(a) any person in respect of whom the member or pensioner is legally liable for maintenance;
(b) any person in respect of whom the member or pensioner is not legally liable for maintenance, if such a person—
(i) was, in the opinion of the Board at the time of the death of the member or pensioner in fact dependent upon such member or pensioner for maintenance;
(ii) is the spouse of the member or pensioner, including a party to a customary union according to indigenous law and custom, or to a union recognised as a marriage under the tenets of any religion; or
(c) a posthumous child of the member or pensioner; and
(d) a person in respect of whom the member or pensioner would have been legally liable for maintenance had that person been a minor;