Article (55)
This Law will be published in the Official Gazette and will come into force on 1 September 2008.
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
Ruler of Dubai
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Issued in Dubai on 19 August 2008
Corresponding to 18 Shaban 1429 A.H.
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Schedule (1)
Beneficiaries and their Pension Shares
SN Beneficiaries
Pension Shares
Widow or
Husband Children Parents Siblings
1
Widow(s) or eligible
husband, one or more
children, father and/ or
mother, and any other
Beneficiary
3/8 3/8 1/8 1/8
2
Widow(s) or eligible
husband, one or more
children, and father and/ or
mother
3/8 4/8 1/8
ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــ
3
Widow(s) or eligible
husband, one or more
children, and one or more
siblings
3/8 4/8
ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــ
1/8
4
Widow(s) or eligible
husband, father and/ or
mother, and one or more
siblings
1/2
ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــ
1/4 1/4
5
Widow(s) or eligible
husband, and one or more
children
3/8 5/8
ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــ
6
Widow(s) or eligible
husband, and father and/ or
mother
1/2
ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــ
1/2
ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــ
7
Widow(s) or eligible
husband, and one or more
siblings
1/2
ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــ
1/2
8 Widow(s) or eligible
husband
3/4 ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــ
9 One or more children ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــ The whole
Pension ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــ
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10 One or more children, and
father and/ or mother ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــ 7/8 1/8 ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــ
11 One or more children, and
one or more siblings ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــ 7/8 ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــ 1/8
12
One or more children, father
and/ or mother, and one or
more siblings
ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــ
6/8 1/8 1/8
13 Father and/ or mother, and
one or more siblings ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــ 3/5 2/5
14 Father and/ or mother ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــ 3/4 ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــ
15 One or more siblings ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــ 1/2
Schedule (1) (Continued)
1. The terms 'children' and 'siblings' in Schedule (1) will include males and females.
2. Where more than one Beneficiary is entitled to a Pension Share, this share will be equally
distributed among them.
3. A husband will not be entitled to the Pension of his deceased wife unless he was, at the time
of her death, medically unfit to earn a living, as evidenced by a report from a Medical
Committee. His medical unfitness must be verified once every two (2) years unless the Medical
Committee confirms the improbability of his recovery.
4. Where a parent who is eligible for a Pension Share dies, the Pension Share will be transferred
to the other parent if he is also eligible. Where both parents die, the Pension Share will be
redistributed to the children of the Pensioner.
5. Where the Pension Share of a sibling is discontinued, it will be redistributed to the other
siblings. Where no other eligible siblings exist, the Pension Share will be redistributed to the
children of the Pensioner.
6. Where the Pension Shares of the siblings are discontinued and the parents are the only
Beneficiaries, these shares will be redistributed to the parents, provided that their total shares
do not exceed three-quarters of the Pension.
7. Where the Pension Shares of the parents are discontinued and the siblings are the only
Beneficiaries, these shares will be redistributed to the siblings, provided that their total shares
do not exceed one half of the Pension.
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8. Where the Pension Shares of the siblings are discontinued and the widow(s) is/ are the only
beneficiary(ies), these shares will be equally redistributed to the widows, provided that their
total shares do not exceed three-quarters of the Pension.
9. Where the Pension Shares of the parents or that of any of them is discontinued and the
widow(s) is/ are the only beneficiary(ies), these shares will be equally redistributed to the
widow(s), provided that their total shares do not exceed three-quarters of the Pension.
10. Unclaimed Pension Shares will revert to the Fund.
Schedule (2)
Disability Assessment in Case of Loss of Organ
SN Resulting Disability Disability Percentage
1 Amputation of the right arm at the shoulder-joint 80%
2 Above-elbow amputation of the right arm 75%
3 Below-elbow amputation of the right arm 65%
4 Amputation of the left arm at the shoulder-joint 70%
5 Above-elbow amputation of the left arm 65%
6 Below-elbow amputation of the left arm 55%
7 Above-knee amputation of leg 65%
8 Below-knee amputation of leg 55%
9 Total loss of hearing 55%
10 Loss of an eye 35%
Left Right
11 Amputation of a thumb 25% 30%
12 Amputation of distal phalanx of thumb 15% 18%
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13 Amputation of a forefinger 10% 12%
14 Amputation of distal phalanx of forefinger 5% 6%
15 Amputation of distal and proximal phalanx of forefinger 8% 10%
16 Amputation of the middle finger 8% 10%
17 Amputation of the proximal phalanx of the middle finger 4% 5%
18 Amputation of distal and proximal phalanx of the middle finger 6% 8%
19 Amputation of other than the forefinger, the thumb, and the
middle finger
5% 6%
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