The Firefighters' Pension (Wales) Scheme (Amendment) Order 2006

4.  In rule C2 (spouse’s special award)—

(a) in paragraphs (1) and (2), after “spouse”, insert “or civil partner”; and

(b) for paragraph (3), substitute—

“(3) Where the deceased died while serving as a regular firefighter the amount of the gratuity is the total of 25% of his average pensionable pay and the greater of—

(a) in the case of a surviving spouse—

(i) his average pensionable pay, and

(ii) two and a quarter times the amount of the pension that would have been payable under rule B3 if on the date of his death he had retired on the ground of permanent disablement;

(b) in the case of a surviving civil partner—

(i) his average pensionable pay; and

(ii) two and a quarter times such amount as bears to the amount of the pension referred to in sub-paragraph (a)(ii) to which he would have been entitled had he been the deceased’s surviving spouse, the same proportion that the deceased’s service after 5th April 1988 bears to the whole of his pensionable service.”.