Reduction in standard retirement grant on account of contingent spouse’s pension
3.—(1) Subject to paragraph 4, where the person—
(i)is a widower;
(ii)is judicially separated from his wife; or
(iii)is a man whose marriage has been dissolved;
the standard retirement grant is reduced by two eightieths of his pensionable remuneration, multiplied by the length in years of any period of membership before 1st April 1972, or, if earlier, the date of the death, separation or dissolution.