# The Registered Pension Schemes (Authorised Payments) Regulations 2009, Regulation 15: Pensions continuing to be paid after death


(1) A payment which is intended to represent the payment of a pension permitted by the pension rules or the pension death benefit rules to or in respect of a member if—
(a) the member or dependant concerned (“the person”) has died;
(b) the payment is made no later than six months after the date of the person’s death;
(c) the payment would not have been an unauthorised payment if it had been made on the day before the person died; and
(d) either of the conditions in paragraph (2) is satisfied.
(2) The conditions mentioned in paragraph (1)(d) are—
(a) the scheme administrator or insurance company making the payment (in either case, “the payer”) did not know, and could not reasonably have been expected to know, that the person had died before the payment was made;
(b) where the payer knew of the person’s death before the payment was made, the payer took reasonable steps to prevent the payment’s being made or its being made in that amount.
(3) Regulation 4 applies to the whole of the payment.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/1171/regulation/15 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/registered-pension-schemes-authorised-payments-regulations-2009/regulation-15
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