Regulation 54 Protection of the amount of pension payable to an eligible childI1

immediately before 1 October 2023, benefits are in payment to an eligible child (“E”) in respect of the remediable service as a firefighter of a deceased member,

there is a surviving partner F1as defined in regulation 76 of the 2015 Regulations (“S”) in relation to the deceased member,

S does not have parental responsibility for E, and

S makes an immediate choice decision which would (disregarding this regulation) result in a decrease in the amount of benefits payable to E in relation to M’s remediable service as a firefighter.

E does not owe the scheme manager a liability under section 14(3) of PSPJOA in respect of benefits received in relation to M’s remediable service as a firefighter, and

the amount of benefits payable continues to be the amount that was payable before the election was made.