Paragraph 7 Meaning of “basic or prospective pension or pensions”: persons with service between 1st January 1972 and 1st August 1978.
In paragraphs 1, 3 and 5 of this Schedule, “basic or prospective pension or pensions”, in relation to a person who has died and who at the time of his death was entitled to receive a pension under paragraph 1 or paragraph 3 of Schedule 9, or under both those paragraphs, means the annual amount of that pension calculated in accordance with paragraph 1 or paragraph 4 of Schedule 9, or the aggregate of the annual amounts of those pensions so calculated, as the case may be; and in relation to a person who has died and who had not before his death become entitled to receive a pension under either of those paragraphs, but had at the time of his death an aggregate period of reckonable service (as a participant) of not less than four years, it means the annual amount specified in whichever of the following sub-paragraphs is applicable in his case, or, if both those sub-paragraphs are applicable, it means the aggregate of the annual amounts specified in those sub-paragraphs—
where the deceased was a participating Member at any time on or after 1st January 1972, the annual amount of the pension, calculated in accordance with paragraph 1 of Schedule 9, which he would have been entitled to receive under that paragraph if he had ceased to be a participating Member immediately before his death and he had then fulfilled the conditions specified in paragraphs (a) to (d) of subparagraph (1) of that paragraph;
where the deceased was a participating office holder in respect of one or more periods of tenure of a qualifying office, the annual amount of the pension, calculated in accordance with paragraph 4 of Schedule 9 which he would have been entitled to receive under paragraph 3 of Schedule 9 if immediately before his death he had fulfilled the conditions mentioned in the preceding paragraph.