38.—(1) If an active member dies before attaining the age of 75, the appropriate administering authority shall pay a death grant.
(2) The administering authority may, at its absolute discretion, pay the death grant to or for the benefit of the member’s nominee, personal representatives or any person appearing to the authority to have been a relative or dependent of the member.
(3) The death grant is the amount of 3 times the member’s annual assumed pensionable pay calculated in accordance with regulation 21(4) or, as appropriate, regulation 21(9), as at the date of the member’s death or, if higher, the aggregate of the amount of any death grant payable under regulation 41 (death grants: deferred members and pension credit members) and the amount of any death grant payable under regulation 44 (death grants: pensioner members).