The Parliamentary Pensions (Consolidation and Amendment) Regulations 1993

Death in service of participating Member

K4.—(1) Where a man has died and, at the time of his death, he was a participating Member, paragraph (2) below and regulation K5 (so far as applicable) shall apply if his widow is entitled to receive a pension under regulation K2, or if a children’s pension is payable under regulation K3 for the benefit of any relevant child or children of his.

(2) If the deceased died before attaining the age of sixty-five years, the annual amount of any pension payable to his widow under regulation K2, or for the benefit of any relevant child or children of his under regulation K3, shall be calculated as if he had immediately before his death ceased because of ill-health to be a Member of the House of Commons and had by virtue of regulation J1 been entitled to receive a pension under regulation F1 as from the time when he so ceased.