Regulation 14 Amendment of the Principal RegulationsI1

in paragraph (3) at the end insert “,but where, in the opinion of an IRMP the member was, at the date of death, wholly or temporarily in part time service or working at a lower grade, as a result of the condition that caused or contributed to the member’s death, no account shall be taken of any reduction in pensionable pay due to such reduction in service as is attributable to that condition”; and

after paragraph (4) insert—

“(5)

Where an active member is also a deferred member or a pensioner member of the Scheme or both, the death grant payable upon the death of an active member shall be the higher of—

(a)

a death grant calculated in accordance with regulation 40(3); or

(b)

the aggregate of all death grants payable under regulations 46 (death grants: deferred members and pension credit members) and 51 (death grants: pensioner members),

and no other death grant shall be payable.”.