The Firefighters' Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015

Reduction in pensions in cases of wide age disparityN.I.

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90.—(1) This regulation applies if on the death of a member of this scheme, a surviving partner's pension is payable to a person who is more than 12 years younger than the member.

(2) The annual rate of that pension is reduced by the lower of—

(a)50% of the amount of the annual rate of the pension so calculated; or

where N is the number of whole years by which the surviving partner is younger than the member.