# The National Health Service (Compensation for Premature Retirement) Regulations 1981, Regulation 7: Compensation where death gratuity becomes payable


Where the widow or the personal representative of an entitled officer is entitled to receive a death gratuity under the superannuation regulations, she or the personal representative shall be entitled under these regulations to a sum equal to the sum by which such a death gratuity would have been increased if for the purpose of calculating the death gratuity—
(a) there were also taken into account the additional period of service credited to the entitled officer as if it were reckonable service;
(b) the annual allowance or lump sum payable under regulation 4 were treated as if it were a pension or retiring allowance payable under the superannuation regulations; and
(c) where any proportion of an annual allowance has been surrendered under regulation 5(12), there were taken into account the amount which would have been paid but for such a surrender.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1981/1263/regulation/7 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-compensation-for-premature-retirement-regulations-1981/regulation-7
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