Part CWidows' Awards

Widow’s special awardC2

1

This Regulation shall apply to a widow of a member of a police force who dies or has died as the result of an injury received without his own default in the execution of his duty.

2

A widow to whom this Regulation applies shall be entitled to an award which shall comprise—

a

a widow’s special pension calculated in accordance with Part II of Schedule C subject, however, to Regulation E8 (increase during first 13 weeks), and

b

subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), a gratuity of an amount equal to 25% of her husband’s average pensionable pay together with, where he died while serving as a member of a police force, an amount equal to whichever is the greater of the following amounts—

i

her husband’s average pensionable pay,

ii

2¼ times the annual amount of the ill-health pension which would have been payable under Regulation B3 to her husband had he retired on the ground that he was permanently disabled on the day on which he died.

3

Where the husband was entitled to an injury gratuity under Regulation B4 then—

a

if it equalled, or exceeded, the gratuity under paragraph (2)(b), the gratuity under paragraph (2)(b) shall not be payable, and

b

in any other case, the gratuity under paragraph (2)(b) shall be reduced by the amount of the husband’s gratuity.

4

The amount of a widow’s gratuity determined in accordance with the preceding provisions of this Regulation shall be increased in accordance with Regulation E9 (increase by reference to the Pensions (Increase) Acts).

5

Paragraph (2)(b) has effect subject to paragraph 6 of Part II of Schedule J.