The Police Pensions Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 No. 113

Schedule 4 N.I. Transitional provisions

PART 7 N.I. Payment of death benefits in respect of transition members with continuity of service

Annual rate of surviving adult's pension payable under this scheme when a 1988 transition member dies as a deferred member N.I.

27.—(1) This regulation applies in relation to a 1988 transition member with continuity of service who dies as a deferred member of this scheme.

(2) Benefits for surviving spouses or surviving civil partners are not payable under the existing police pension scheme in respect of the member.

(3) The annual rate of a surviving adult's earned pension is the sum of—

(a) the amount calculated under regulation 139; and

(b) the amount of annual pension which would have been payable under the 1988 scheme to the member's surviving spouse or surviving civil partner had those benefits been payable under that scheme in respect of the member.

(4) The amount of pension payable under paragraph (3)(b) is subject to the same conditions, and ceases to be payable in the same circumstances, as is the pension to which the member's surviving spouse or surviving civil partner would have been entitled under the 1988 scheme.