Regulation 7 Survivor benefits

Subject to paragraph (2), any survivor benefits payable in respect of a person to whom regulation 3 or 4 applies are calculated as if the Benefits Regulations applied to all of the membership, whether accrued before or after 1st April 2009.

The survivor benefits payable in respect of a deferred member to whom regulation 4 does not apply are calculated as if the total membership before 1st April 2009 was a separate period of membership to which the conditions in force at the time the person became a deferred member apply.

Regulation 41 of the 1998 Regulations continues to apply to a deferred or pensioner member who marries or enters into a civil partnership after becoming such a member.