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"dependant"

for the purposes of section 7, includes—

(a) any person in respect of whom the deceased was legally liable for maintenance at the time of his or her death;
(b) any child of the deceased born after his or her death;
(c) any surviving spouse of the deceased by virtue of a marriage or a union contracted in accordance with customary law or which is recognized as a marriage in accordance with the tenets of a religion;

[Definition substituted by section 1(b) of Act No. 128 of  1998]