The Firefighters' Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015

Eligible child's pension on death of active member N.I.

94.—(1) This regulation applies in relation to an eligible child of a member who dies if, at the date of death, the member is an active member and has qualifying service of more than three months.

(2) [F1 Subject to paragraph (3)] the annual rate of an eligible child's pension to which this regulation applies is an amount equal to the specified proportion of the pension which the member would have been entitled to draw if the member had retired on the grounds of ill-health with the award of a higher tier ill-health pension on the date of the member's death.

[F2 (3) Where the member referred to in paragraph (1) was a transition member who had additional pension benefit under article 17A or 17B of Part 3 of the NFPS or additional pension benefit under article 16B or 16C of the FPS, the amount of the additional pension benefit is added to the amount of the higher tier ill-health pension referred to in paragraph (2).]

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 94(2) inserted (retrospective to 1.4.2015) by The Firefighters Pension Scheme (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/420), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 5(b)(iii)

F2 Reg. 94(3) inserted (retrospective to 1.4.2015) by The Firefighters Pension Scheme (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/420), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 5(b)(iii)