THE POLICE PENSION (NORTHERN IRELAND) REGULATIONS 2009

Survivors’ pensions - general provision

36.  Subject to and in accordance with the provisions of these Regulations, where a police officer dies or has died—

(a) while he is in receipt of an ordinary pension, an ill-health pension or a deferred pension;

(b) after he has ceased to serve as such in circumstances where no transfer value was paid in respect of his service and he is entitled to a deferred pension whether or not that pension has come into payment;

(c) while he is serving as such and fulfils the qualifying service criterion and no election under regulation 7 has effect at the time of his death; or

(d) while he is serving as such and, having made an election under regulation 7 which has effect at the time of his death, he is entitled to a deferred pension,

a survivor such as is mentioned in regulation 37 shall be entitled to a pension calculated in the case of an adult survivor in accordance with regulation 38, and in the case of a child survivor in accordance with regulation 39.