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Death grants: active membersN.I.
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40.—(1) If an active member dies F1... the Committee shall pay a death grant.
(2) The Committee may, at its absolute discretion, pay the death grant to or for the benefit of the member's nominee, personal representatives or any person appearing to the Committee to have been a relative or dependent of the member at any time.
(3) The death grant is three times the member's annual assumed pensionable pay calculated in accordance with regulation 23(4) (assumed pensionable pay) as at the date of the member's death [F2,but where, in the opinion of an IRMP the member was, at the date of death, wholly or temporarily in part time service or working at a lower grade, as a result of the condition that caused or contributed to the member’s death, no account shall be taken of any reduction in pensionable pay due to such reduction in service as is attributable to that condition] .
F3(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
[F4(5) Where an active member is also a deferred member or a pensioner member of the Scheme or both, the death grant payable upon the death of an active member shall be the higher of—
(a)a death grant calculated in accordance with regulation 40(3); or
(b)the aggregate of all death grants payable under regulations 46 (death grants: deferred members and pension credit members) and 51 (death grants: pensioner members),
and no other death grant shall be payable.]
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F1Words in reg. 40(1) omitted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(a) of the amending Rule) by virtue of The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 (S.R. 2022/163), regs. 1(1), 8
F2Words in reg. 40(3) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending Rule) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/128), regs. 1(1), 14(a)
F3Reg. 40(4) omitted (18.11.2019) by virtue of The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 (S.R. 2019/206), regs. 1(1), 68
F4Reg. 40(5) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending Rule) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/128), regs. 1(1), 14(b)
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