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9.—(1) This paragraph applies where—
(a)a member or non-member dies before becoming entitled to payment of retirement benefits; and
(b)he has not made an election under paragraph 3 or 4, but could still have done so if he had not died; and
(c)he leaves a widow.
(2) Where this paragraph applies the widow may, subject to sub-paragraph (3), elect to pay family benefit contributions in respect of a period comprising all or part of so much of the deceased’s reckonable service as would otherwise not count in the calculation of family benefits.
(3) An election under this paragraph—
(a)shall be made by written notice given to the Department within 3 months after the death;
(b)shall specify the period in respect of which it is made;
(c)shall result in a total of not less than 2 years' reckonable service counting in the calculation of family benefits; and
(d)ceases to have effect if the family benefit contributions are not paid within 3 months after its date.
(4) The family benefit contributions payable as a result of an election under this paragraph consist of a lump sum which is the actuarial equivalent of the contributions that would have been payable by the deceased if—
(a)he had made an election under paragraph 3, or as the case may be paragraph 4, in respect of the same period; and
(b)notice of that election had been given on the day before his death and had specified as the rate at which family benefit contributions were to be paid the maximum allowed by paragraph 14(2) and (3).
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