{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-age-exceptions-for-pension-schemes-order-2010/schedule-1/paragraph-13",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2010/2133",
  "legislation_title": "The Equality Act (Age Exceptions for Pension Schemes) Order 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-age-exceptions-for-pension-schemes-order-2010",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/13",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Rules, practices, actions and decisions relating to benefit",
  "text": "(1) The calculation of any death benefit payable in respect of a member—\n(a) by reference to some or all of the years of prospective pensionable service a member would have completed if that member had remained in service until normal pension age; or\n(b) by reference to a fixed number of years of prospective pensionable service.\n(2) Payment after a member’s death of a death benefit calculated by reference to the period remaining in a pension guarantee period.\n(3) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (2), a pension guarantee period means a fixed period specified in or permitted by the scheme rules beginning on—\n(a) the date on which the payment of pension to or in respect of the member began, or\n(b) if specified in the scheme rules, the date of the member’s death on or after normal pension age where payment of pension to or in respect of that member had not begun.\n(4) Any difference between the death benefits payable in respect of deferred members who die before normal pension age and the death benefits payable in respect of deferred members who die on or after normal pension age.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 13 in force at 1.10.2010, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2133/schedule/1/paragraph/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:32:48.711421+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}