Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000

Death of a deferred pensioner

Deferred pensioner’s spouse’s long-term pension

F3.—(1) If a person who is not a member dies leaving a surviving spouse or spouses and at the time of his death he—

(a) was entitled to preserved benefits, or

(b) was in a local government employment and would have been so entitled if he had ceased to hold that employment immediately before that time,

that spouse is entitled or, as the case may be, they are jointly entitled, to a spouse’s long-term pension.

(2) Subject to regulation F6 (post retirement marriages), the annual rate of the long-term pension to which a spouse is entitled under paragraph (1) is half the annual rate of the retirement pension to which the deceased would have been entitled if on the date of death he had become entitled under regulation D5.