Regulation G7 Pensioner’s children’s short-term pensionF1I1
Northern Ireland
Subject to regulation G8(2), where a person who—
was entitled to receive payments in respect of a retirement pension (other than a pension sole entitlement to which is under regulation D16 or a pension under regulation D18), or
would have been so entitled but for a payment under regulation H6 F2or, as the case may be, regulation 52 of the 2002 Regulations (commutation in exceptional circumstances of ill-health) or the operation of Part I of Schedule D5 F3or, as the case may be, regulation 113 (abatement) of the 2002 Regulations (re-employed pensioners),
dies leaving one or more eligible children, they are entitled to or to the benefit of a children’s short-term pension for 6 months after the death.
Subject to F4paragraph (3) and regulation G8(1), the annual rate of a children’s short-term pension is the rate at which a surviving spouse’s short-term pension would have been payable by virtue of regulation F4 (but, in a case where there is a widower, disregarding regulation F7(2)).
In the case of a person who was a pension debit member the annual rate of children’s short-term pension is equal to the retirement pension to which the deceased person would have been entitled had his shareable rights not been subject to a pension debit.
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Regulations revoked (1.4.2015) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014 (S.R. 2014/189), regs. 1(1), 2, Sch. 2 (with savings and transitional provisions in reg. 3, Sch. 5)
- F2
Words in reg. G7(1)(b) inserted (1.2.2003) by Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment No. 2 and Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 (S.R. 2002/353), reg. 1(1), Sch. 4 para. 19(a) (with Sch. 5)
- F3
Words in reg. G7(1)(b) inserted (1.2.2003) by Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment No. 2 and Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 (S.R. 2002/353), reg. 1(1), Sch. 4 para. 19(b) (with Sch. 5)
- F4
Words in reg. G7(2) inserted (with effect from 1.12.2000) by Local Government Pension Scheme (Pension Sharing on Divorce) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 (S.R. 2001/61), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 6(a)
- F5
Reg. G7(3) added (with effect from 1.12.2000) by Local Government Pension Scheme (Pension Sharing on Divorce) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 (S.R. 2001/61), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 6(b)
Commencement
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Reg. G7 in operation at 1.8.2000, see reg. A1(1)