SCHEDULE 2N.I.AWARDS FOR SPOUSES AND CIVIL PARTNERS

PART 2N.I.AWARD FOR SURVIVING SPOUSE OR CIVIL PARTNER OF POST-RETIREMENT MARRIAGE OR CIVIL PARTNERSHIP

1.—(1) Where the surviving spouse would otherwise have been entitled to a special award under rule 2 of Part 2 or an augmented award under rule 3 of that Part, the amount of his pension under that Part shall, subject to sub-paragraph (2), be calculated in accordance with paragraph 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 3 to the Pension Scheme in the same way as that of an ordinary pension.N.I.

(2) For the purposes of this paragraph, paragraph 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 3 to the Pension Scheme has effect—

(a)as if the reference in sub-paragraph (1)(a) to the base pension were a reference to the appropriate proportion of the base pension; and

(b)as if the base pension were the ill-health pension to which the deceased would have been entitled if he had, when he ceased to serve, retired because he was disabled in circumstances entitling him to such a pension.

Commencement Information

I1Sch. 2 Pt. 2 para. 1 in operation at 2.4.2007 with effect in accordance with art. 1(1), see art. 1(1)

2.  The appropriate proportion mentioned in paragraph 1(2)(a) is the proportion which the deceased’s relevant pensionable service bears to his total pensionable service.N.I.

Commencement Information

I2Sch. 2 Pt. 2 para. 2 in operation at 2.4.2007 with effect in accordance with art. 1(1), see art. 1(1)