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Regulation 3 Circumstances where a widow or widower is not entitled to periodic compensationI1C1

Northern Ireland

A widow or widower shall not be entitled to periodic compensation under paragraph 4 (pensions in payment at assessment date), 6 (pension benefits postponed at assessment date), 9 (active members over normal pension age at assessment date), 13 (active members who have not attained normal pension age at assessment date) or 18 (deferred members who have not attained normal pension age at assessment date) of Schedule 6 F1where there is—

  1. (a)

    a valid nomination made by the member in accordance with either—

    1. (i)

      the admissible rules of the scheme, or

    2. (ii)

      regulation 4(2)(a),

    to pay a survivor’s pension to a relevant partner, or

  2. (b)

    no provision to pay a survivor’s pension under the admissible rules of the scheme.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in reg. 3 substituted (5.12.2005) by The Occupational Pension Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 (S.R. 2005/357), regs. 1(1)(b), 8(3)

Modifications

C1

Reg. 3 modified (24.7.2014) by The Pensions (2012 Act) (Transitional, Consequential and Supplementary Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014 (S.R. 2014/204), regs. 1(1), 58(c)

Commencement

I1

Reg. 3 in operation at 6.4.2005, see reg. 1(1)