Amount of survivor’s pension: general
2.—(1) Subject to rule 3, the amount of a survivor’s pension—
(a)in respect of a firefighter member who satisfies an eligibility condition and dies while employed by an authority, is half of the higher tier ill-health pension to which the member would have been entitled under rule 2(3) of Part 3 had the member retired with the benefit of an ill-health award;
(b)in any other case, subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), is half of the pension to which the deceased was entitled.
(2) Where a portion of the deceased’s pension had been commuted under rule 9 of Part 3, the amount of the survivor’s pension is half of the deceased’s pension after commutation.
(3) Where the deceased had taken member-initiated early retirement, the amount of the survivor’s pension is —
(a)half of the amount of the pension which the deceased would have received if there had been no actuarial reduction; or
(b)where a portion of the deceased’s pension had been commuted, the amount found by dividing by 2 the product of A and B, where—
A is the amount which the deceased would have received if there had been no actuarial reduction; and
B is the fraction which represents the uncommuted portion of A expressed as a fraction of A.