23.—(1) If an active member dies, a death grant is payable.
(2) The appropriate administering authority at its discretion may make payments in respect of the death grant to or for the benefit of the member’s nominee or executors, or any person appearing to the authority to have been the member’s relative or dependant at any time.
(3) The death grant is the member’s final pay multiplied by 3.
(4) But in calculating death grant in respect of a part-time employee, actual pensionable pay in part-time employment is to be used.
(5) If the administering authority have not made payments under paragraph (1) equalling in aggregate the member’s death grant before the expiry of 2 years beginning with the member’s death, it must pay an amount equal to the shortfall to the member’s executors.