# The Firefighters’ Compensation Scheme Order (Northern Ireland) 2007, Paragraph 1: Special award for spouse or civil partner

Extent: N.I.

(1) This rule applies where a person who is or has been a regular or retained firefighter dies from the effects—
(a) of a qualifying injury; or
(b) of infirmity of mind or body occasioned by a qualifying injury,
leaving a surviving spouse or surviving civil partner.
(2) Subject to rules 3, 4 and 6, the surviving spouse or surviving civil partner is entitled—
(a) to a special pension calculated in accordance with Part 1 of Schedule 2; and
(b) subject to paragraph (5), to a gratuity.
(3) Where the deceased died while serving as a regular or retained firefighter, the amount of the gratuity is the total of 25% of his average pensionable pay or his final pensionable pay or his final pay, as the case may be and the greater of—
(a) as regards a surviving spouse or surviving civil partner—
(i) his average pensionable pay or his final pensionable pay or his final pay, as the case may be; and
(ii) two and a quarter times the amount of the pension that would have been payable under article 17 of the Firefighters’ Pension Scheme or article 12 of the New Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (ill-health award) or regulation 73 of the 2015 Regulations if on the date of his death he had retired on the ground of permanent disablement;
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(4) In any other case the amount of the gratuity is 25% of the deceased’s average pensionable pay or, his final pensionable pay or his final pay, as the case may be.
(5) Where the deceased was entitled to an injury gratuity under rule 1 of Part 2 (injury award)—
(a) if it was of the same or a larger amount, no gratuity is payable under this rule; and
(b) if it was of a smaller amount, the gratuity under this rule shall be reduced by that amount.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/143/schedule/ANNEX/part/3/paragraph/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-compensation-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-ANNEX/part-3/paragraph-1
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