Regulation F2 Member’s spouse’s long-term pension

(1)

Subject to regulation F7 (remarriage and cohabitation), if a member who has a statutory pension entitlement dies leaving a surviving spouse or spouses, that spouse is entitled or, as the case may be, they are jointly entitled, at the end of the period in respect of which a short-term pension is payable under regulation F1, to a spouse’s long-term pension.

(2)

Where paragraph (1) applies then, subject to Part IV of Schedule D5 (re-employed pensioners), the annual rate of the long-term pension is—

(a)

if the member’s total period of membership was not less than two years, half the annual rate of the retirement pension to which the spouse would have been entitled if on the date of death the spouse had become entitled under regulation D7 (permanent ill-health, etc.); and

(b)

otherwise, one one hundred and sixtieth of the member’s pensionable remuneration, multiplied by the length in years of the member’s total period of membership.

(3)

For the purposes of paragraph (2)(a)—

(a)

any increase in the deceased’s retirement pension by virtue of regulation D2(2)(i), and

(b)

any reduction in that pension under regulation H2, or by virtue of a surrender under regulation D14, shall be disregarded.