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PART 2Amendment of the National Health Service Pension Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2015

Regulation 114

14.  In regulation 114 (amount of pension: survivor of active member), for paragraph (8)(b) substitute—

(b)sub-paragraph (a) does not apply if—

(i)the Scottish Ministers’ liability to provide a guaranteed minimum pension in respect of the surviving adult dependent is discharged by the payment of a contributions equivalent premium under section 55(2) of the 1993 Act; or

(ii)a surviving widow, widower or civil partner has been convicted of an offence specified in paragraph 12 of schedule 3 and the Scottish Ministers directed, as a consequence of that conviction, that the person’s rights to a payment in respect of the member’s death is forfeit..