POLICE SERVICE OF NORTHERN IRELAND AND POLICE SERVICE OF NORTHERN IRELAND RESERVE (INJURY BENEFIT) REGULATIONS 2006

Adult dependent relative’s special pension

19.—(1) This regulation applies in the case of a police officer who dies as the result of an injury received without his own default in the execution of his duty and, in such case, shall apply—

(a) to a parent or (without prejudice to the following sub-paragraph) to a brother or sister of the police officer who had attained the age of 19 years before the police officer’s death,

(b) subject to his having attained the age of 19 years, to any child of the police officer whether or nor he had attained that age before the police officer’s death,

(c) where the police officer was a married woman whose husband was permanently disabled at the time she died, to her widower, or

(d) where the police officer was a woman in a civil partnership whose civil partner was permanently disabled at the time the police officer died, to the surviving civil partner,

subject, in each case, to the person in question being substantially dependent on the police officer immediately before the member’s death.

(2) If the Board, having regard to all the circumstances of the case, so determine, it may grant a special pension to any such dependent relative.

(3) A dependent relative’s special pension shall be calculated in accordance with Schedule 5 and, subject to paragraph 4 of that Schedule, shall be payable for such period or periods as the Board may, in its discretion, from time to time determine.