SCHEDULEAMENDMENTS TO THE FIREMEN'S PENSION SCHEME

Schedule 3: Awards on death – spouses

32.  For Part II of Schedule 3 (spouse’s special pension) substitute—

1.  Subject to paragraph 2, the weekly amount of a special pension is 45% of the deceased’s average pensionable pay for a week.

2.(1)  Where some or all of the deceased’s service, which is reckonable as pensionable service, was part-time service, the amount of special pension shall be calculated using the formula in paragraph 2 of Part VIA of Schedule 2.

(2) In making the calculation mentioned in sub-paragraph (1), for the value of A there shall be substituted “A is the amount calculated under paragraph 1 of Part II of Schedule 3 if the average pensionable pay was the pay the deceased would have received had he been a whole-time member of a brigade”..