Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009

Survivor benefits

6.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), any survivor benefits payable in respect of a person to whom regulation 3 or 4 applies are calculated as if the Benefits Regulations applied to all of his membership, whether it accrued before or after 1st April 2009.

(2) The survivor benefits payable in respect of a deferred member to whom regulation 4 does not apply are calculated as if his total membership before 1st April 2009 was a separate period of membership to which the conditions in force at the time he became a deferred member apply.

(3) Regulations 44 (reduction of some surviving spouses’ pensions) and 44A (calculation of pension for surviving civil partner) of the 2002 Regulations continue to apply to a deferred or pensioner member who marries or enters a civil partnership after becoming such a member.