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Paragraph 2 I1

Northern Ireland

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

Subject to sub-paragraph (3), the amount of the surviving spouse’s or civil partner’s accrued pension is the total of—

(a)

1/6th of the deceased’s deferred pension multiplied by the appropriate fraction of his half-rate service; and

(b)

1/3rd of his deferred pension multiplied by the appropriate fraction of his mixed-rate service.

(2)

The appropriate fraction is—

(A/B)

where—

  • A is the deceased’s half-rate or, as the case may be, mixed rate service, and

  • B is all the pensionable service he was entitled to reckon.

(3)

In calculating the deceased’s deferred pension for the purposes of this paragraph account shall be taken of Part IV of Schedule 2 (calculation of awards for part-time service), but no account shall be taken of—

(a)

article 16(5) (restriction on payment); or

(b)

article 18(10) or 20(9) or Part VI or VII of Schedule 2 (reduction in various circumstances).

Annotations

Commencement

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Sch. 3 Pt. 2 para. 2 in operation at 1.4.2006, see art. 1(2)