The New Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2008

6.  In Part 6 (pension sharing on divorce)—

(a) In article 39 (commutation of part of pension credit benefits), for paragraph (2), substitute—

“(2) The commuted portion must not exceed one quarter of the amount of the pension.”;

(b) in article 41 (post-retirement death grant: pension credit members), in paragraph (1)(b), for paragraph (ii), substitute—

“(ii) the instalments of pension that have been paid,”; and

(c) after article 41 add—

“Death grants where pension credit member dies before pension credit benefits payable

41A.— (1) If a pension credit member dies before any benefit deriving from the member’s pension have become payable to him under this Scheme, a lump sum death grant is to be paid to his personal representatives.

(2) The amount of the grant shall be equal to the product of 2.25 and the annual rate of the pension to which the member would have been entitled under article 37(2).”.