THE POLICE PENSION (NORTHERN IRELAND) REGULATIONS 2009

Survivors’ awards on death of servicemen

84.—(1) Subject to regulations 85 and 89, paragraph (2) applies in a case in which a serviceman who fulfils the qualifying service criterion—

(a)dies or has died during his period of relevant service in the reserve forces; or

(b)having been permanently disabled for the performance of the ordinary duties of a member of the police service at the end of that period (without any intervening period of service as such) dies or has died while in receipt of a pension granted in pursuance of regulation 83(2)(a).

(2) In a case in which this paragraph applies—

(a)an adult survivor of that serviceman (had he been a police officer) such as is mentioned in regulation 37(1)(a) shall be entitled to an adult survivor’s pension, and

(b)a child survivor of that serviceman (had he been a police officer) such as is mentioned in regulation 37(1) (b), shall be entitled to a child survivor’s pension under regulation 36, on the same conditions in all respects as if he had been a police officer who had died in the circumstances mentioned in that regulation.