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  "legislation": "ssi/2007/199",
  "legislation_title": "The Firefighters' Pension Scheme (Scotland) Order 2007",
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  "heading": "Bereavement pension: survivors",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a person entitled to a survivor’s pension under rule 1 of this Part is also entitled, in respect of each of the 13 weeks following the death, to a bereavement pension of an amount equal to the difference between the weekly rate at which the survivor’s pension is paid and–\n(a) if the deceased was a firefighter member when the deceased died, the weekly rate of the firefighter member’s pensionable pay when the firefighter member died;\n(b) in any other case, the weekly rate of the deceased’s pension or pensions (including any increase under the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971) when the deceased died.\n(2) No entitlement arises under paragraph (1) where–\n(a) a contributions election has effect at the date of the deceased’s death; or\n(b) the deceased was entitled to a deferred pension that had not come into payment.",
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