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  "legislation": "ssi/2007/199",
  "legislation_title": "The Firefighters' Pension Scheme (Scotland) Order 2007",
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  "heading": "Amount of survivor’s pension: general",
  "text": "(1) Subject to rule 3 of this Part, the amount of a survivor’s pension–\n(a) in respect of a firefighter member who satisfies an eligibility condition and dies while employed by an authority, is half of the higher tier ill-health pension to which the firefighter member would have been entitled under rule 2(3) of Part 3 had the firefighter member retired with the benefit of an ill-health award;\n(b) in any other case, subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), is half of the pension to which the deceased was entitled.\n(2) Where a portion of the deceased’s pension had been commuted under rule 9 of Part 3, the amount of the survivor’s pension is half of the deceased’s pension after commutation.\n(3) Where the deceased had taken member-initiated early retirement, the amount of the survivor’s pension is–\n(a) half of the amount of the pension which the deceased would have received if there had been no actuarial reduction; or\n(b) where a portion of the deceased’s pension had been commuted, the amount found by dividing by 2 the product of A and B, where–\nA is the amount which the deceased would have received if there had been no actuarial reduction; and\nB is the fraction which represents the uncommuted portion of A expressed as a fraction of A.",
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