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Local Government Pension Scheme (Benefits, Membership and Contributions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009

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Meaning of “eligible child”

26.—(1) Subject to paragraph (3), the child of a deceased member is an eligible child if he is wholly or mainly dependant on the member, and is less than 18 years of age, at the date of the member’s death.

(2) But a child who was born on or after the first anniversary of the date of the deceased member’s death is not an eligible child.

(3) A dependant child who has reached the age of 18 but has not reached the age of 23 and is in full time education or undertaking vocational training at the date of the member’s death is an eligible child.

(4) The Committee may treat a dependant child who commences full time education or vocational training after the date of the member’s death as an eligible child after he reaches the age of 18 and until he reaches the age of 23.

(5) In the case a dependant child falling within paragraph (4), the Committee may—

(a)treat education or training as continuous despite a break; or

(b)suspend payment of any entitlement to benefits under regulation 28 (children’s pensions: active members), 34 (children’s pensions: deferred members) or 37 (children’s pensions: pensioner members) during such a break.

(6) The Committee may treat a dependant child who is disabled within the meaning of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995(1) as an eligible child.

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