Section 2
SEC. 2. Any uniformed officer, sergeant, corporal, patrolmen or detective of the Police Department, or any uniformed officer or firemen of the Fire Department who has had twenty or more years of continuous and satisfactory service, may take advantage of the benefits of this Act and retire from active service, upon approval by the President of the Philippines, and when so retired, he shall deceive until his death a monthly pension, in accordance with the rate of schedule established in section three hereof: Provided, That upon the death of the uniformed officer, sergeant, corporal, patrolman or detective of the Police Department, or the uniformed officer or fireman of the Fire Department who has either been retired or would at the time of his death, be entitled by reason of service to the retirement or pension benefits provided for in this Act, his surviving spouse, legitimate, acknowledged or illegitimate minor children in equal shares shall be entitled to the full benefits of this Act; and, in case he left no minor children, the surviving spouse shall be entitled to receive only fifty per centum of the pension to which such uniformed officer, sergeant, corporal, patrolman or detective of the Police Department, or uniformed officer or fireman of the Fire Department would have been entitled if he had not died: Provided, further, That no payment shall be made as pension to children after they have all attained the age of twenty-one years or have married, nor to the surviving spouse if remarried.