Part V E+W+S Payments to make up Civil Remuneration

46General provisions as to payments to make up civil remuneration.E+W+S

(1)Where a person occupied in any capacity specified in the first column of Part I or Part II of the Second Schedule to this Act ceases to be so occupied in order to perform relevant service to which this Part of this Act applies, there may, subject to the provisions of this Part of this Act, be made to or in respect of him such payments as are hereafter in this section provided.

(2)While any such person is performing relevant service to which this Part of this Act applies, there may be paid to him, or to or for the benefit of his [F1spouse or civil partner] or other dependants nominated by him, a sum which shall not exceed the remuneration which he would have received if he had continued to be occupied in the said capacity, after deducting therefrom the amount of his service pay:

Provided that, in applying this subsection in the case of a person occupied in several capacities specified as aforesaid, account shall be taken, in relation to any one of those capacities, of the appropriate proportion only of his service pay, and not of the whole.

(3)In the event of the death of any such person while performing relevant service to which this Part of this Act applies, then, unless that person leaves—

[F2(a)]a [F3surviving spouse entitled to a surviving spouse’s pension] by virtue of—

[F4(i)regulations made under section 7 or 10 of the M1Superannuation Act 1972; or

(ii)any local Act scheme; or]

(iii)the [F5Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004]; or

(iv)[F6the M2Police Pensions Act 1976]; [F7or]

[F8(b)a surviving civil partner entitled to a surviving civil partner’s pension by virtue of any of those provisions,]

there may, during a period not exceeding twenty-six weeks from the date of the death, be paid to or for the benefit of [F9that person’s surviving spouse, surviving civil partner] or other dependants such sum as might have been paid to him under the last foregoing subsection if he had been performing such service during that period.

F10(4). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F2Words in s. 46(3) renumbered as s. 46(3)(a) (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), s. 263(8)(a), Sch. 26 para. 25(3)(a); S.I. 2005/3175, art. 2(1), Sch. 1

F5Words in s. 46(3)(iii) substituted (1.10.2004 except in relation to W., 10.11.2004 for W.) by Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 (c. 21), s. 61, Sch. 1 para. 12(2) (with savings for E.S. in S.I. 2004/2306, art. 3, Sch. and for W. in S.I. 2004/2918, art. 3, Sch.; and with further savings for W. (11.11.2004) in S.I. 2004/2918, art. 1(1), Sch.); S.I. 2004/2304, art. 2; S.I. 2004/2917, art. 2

F6Words substituted by virtue of Police Pensions Act 1976 (c. 35), s. 12(3)

F10S. 46(4) repealed (except as it extends to N.I.) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989 (c. 43), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. I Group 5

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