Death grants: active members
23.—(1) If an active member dies, a death grant is payable.
(2) The Committee at its absolute discretion may make payments in respect of the death grant to or for the benefit of the member’s nominee or personal representatives, or any person appearing to the Committee to have been his relative or dependant at any time.
(3) The death grant is his final pay multiplied by 3.
(4) But in calculating death grant in respect of a part-time employee, actual pensionable pay in part-time employment is to be used.
(5) If the Committee has not made payments under paragraph (1) equalling in aggregate the member’s death grant before the expiry of 2 years—
(a)beginning with his death; or
(b)beginning with the date on which the Committee could reasonably be expected to have become aware of the member’s death,
it must pay an amount equal to the shortfall to the member’s personal representatives.