PART 1N.I.MEMBERSHIP, CONTRIBUTIONS AND BENEFITS

SURVIVOR BENEFITSN.I.

Survivor benefits: deferred membersN.I.

Death grants: deferred members and pension credit membersN.I.

46.—(1) If a deferred member dies 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.

(3) The death grant is the amount the member would have been entitled to receive as retirement pension annually if—

(a)the member had been able to draw a pension on the date the member died; and

(b)the pension the member would have been able to draw on that date had not been subject to any restriction on the age at which it could be drawn, or actuarial adjustment relating to the age at which it was drawn,

multiplied by five.

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(5) This regulation applies to pension credit members (including persons entitled to a pension credit who die before the Committee awards a pension credit) as it applies to deferred members with the modification that for the amount of death grant calculated under paragraph (3), the amount calculated under paragraph (3)(a) and (b) is multiplied by [F2three] .

[F3(5) This regulation shall apply to pension credit members as it applies to deferred members, subject to paragraph (6).

(6) Where a person entitled to a pension credit dies before the Committee awards a pension credit, the calculation of the death grant under paragraph (3), shall be modified so that the multiplier is three.]

Textual Amendments

F3Reg. 46(5)(6) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(c) of the amending Rule) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 (S.R. 2019/206), regs. 1(1), 69(b)