27.—(1) If a member dies leaving one or more eligible children, they are entitled to a children’s pension.
(2) The pension is payable from the day following the date of death.
(3) A child ceases to be entitled to a pension when he ceases to be an eligible child within regulation 26 (meaning of “eligible child”).
(4) The amount of that pension is calculated in accordance with regulation 28 (children’s pensions: active members), 34 (children’s pensions: deferred members) or 37 (children’s pensions: pensioner members), as the case may be.
[F1(5) The Committee may pay the whole or part of a children’s pension to a person other than the eligible child, to be applied for the benefit of such one or more eligible children as the Committee may direct.]
Textual Amendments
F1Reg. 27(5) inserted (1.4.2009) by Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (revoked) 2010 (S.R. 2010/410), regs. 1(4), 17
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