Subject to the provisions of this Act, and in particular to section 42 thereof, a woman whose marriage has been terminated by divorce shall be entitled to child's special allowance at the weekly rate specified in relation thereto in column 2 of Schedule 3 to this Act if—
(a)the husband of that marriage is dead and satisfied the contribution conditions set out in paragraph 4(1) of Schedule 2 to this Act; and
(b)she has a family which includes a child who at that husband's death was, or but for the fact that the child was not then in Great Britain would have been, either a child of her family or, where the child is issue of theirs within the meaning of the Family Allowances Act, a child of that husband's family ; and
(c)that husband had before his death been contributing at not less than the prescribed weekly rate to the cost of providing for that child:
Provided that the allowance shall not be payable for any period after her remarriage or for any period during which she is cohabiting with a man as his wife.