9. (1) If any employee-(a) is declared by the prescribed medical authority to have been permanently disabled, physically or mentally, to discharge his duties and is, for that reason, retired, removed or discharged from service; or (b) dies during the continuance of his employment, or if he, being a retired employee, dies within a period of five years from the date of his superannuation;the employee or, in the event of the employee's death, the wife or wives or the husband of the employee, as the case may be, shall be entitled to receive a welfare grant from the Fund according to the scale specified in the Schedule annexed to this Ordinance. (2) The welfare grant under sub-section (1), shall be payable on a monthly basis for a period of ten years or up to the date on which the employee attains or might have, if he were alive, attained the age which does not exceed the age of superannuation by five years, whichever is earlier. (3) If the husband or wife, who is entitled to receive a welfare grant under sub-section (1), remarries or dies before the expiry of the period for which he or she is entitled to receive the welfare grant under sub-section (2), the grant shall be payable for the unexpired period to such member or members of the family of the deceased employee as the Board may determine. (4) If an employee dies leaving behind no wife or husband, as the case may be, such members of his family shall be entitled to receive the welfare grant under sub-section (1), as the Board may determine. (5) If a disabled employee, who is a recipient of a welfare grant under sub-section (1), dies before the expiry of the period for which he is entitled to receive the welfare grant under sub-section (2), the grant shall be payable for the unexpired period to the wife or wives or husband of the employee, as the case may be, or, if the employee leaves behind no wife or husband, to such members of his family as the Board may determine.