51. Where benefits are granted for a year to each spouse, such benefits shall be equal to one-half of the amount obtained under sections 48, 48.2, 48.3 and 48.5.
If the spouse of the adult, for a year, is no longer his spouse on 31 December of that year, the calculation prescribed in the first paragraph shall, for the purposes of section 48.5, apply only with respect to the period of the year during which he had a spouse.
1988, c. 51, s. 51; 1991, c. 71, s. 5; 1995, c. 1, s. 237; 1997, c. 57, s. 55; 1997, c. 58, s. 55.