Key legal question
Whether the widow could claim a death capital instead of a survivor's pension under the pension regulations.
Extracted holding
The regulations made survivor benefits subsidiary: because the widow met the conditions for a widow's pension, no death capital was payable.
Extracted reasoning
Art. 33(4), 41(1), 43(1), and 49 of the fund rules clearly provided that a survivor's pension is owed first; a death capital arises only if no pension or lump-sum allowance is due. The absence of a formal pension request did not matter.