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83.—(1) A death grant may be paid on the death of a person (D) in any of the following circumstances—
(a)D dies in pensionable employment;
(b)D dies during a period in respect of which D is paying contributions under regulation C9 of TPR 1997 or regulation 19 (election to pay contributions by a person serving in a reserve force);
(c)D ceases to be in pensionable employment because D is incapacitated and dies within 12 months after the cessation of the pensionable employment without returning to employment in a capacity mentioned in Schedule 2;
(d)the period in respect of which D is paying contributions under regulation 19 ends because D is incapacitated, and D dies within 12 months after the end of that period without returning to employment in a capacity mentioned in Schedule 2;
(e)D dies while on non-pensionable family leave which immediately follows a period of pensionable employment.
(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply if a retirement pension, short-service incapacity grant or short-service serious ill-health grant, calculated in every case by reference to all of D’s reckonable service at the date of D’s death, became payable before D’s death.
(3) For the purpose of paragraph (2) an ill-health pension does not become payable before a person’s death unless payment is initiated before the person’s death.
(4) The amount of the death grant is 3 times D’s average salary less the total of the following benefits previously payable to D other than any already deducted in the calculation of a lump sum—
(a)any phased retirement lump sum;
(b)any retirement lump sum;
(c)any total incapacity lump sum;
(d)any lump sum under regulation 116 (election to receive lump sum in place of part of pension) other than a lump sum attributable to an additional pension;
(e)any short-service incapacity grant;
(f)any short-service serious ill-health grant.
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