SCHEDULE 1ARRANGEMENT OF RULESTHE ARMED FORCES PENSION SCHEME 2005
PART EDEATH BENEFITS
Pensions for Adult Dependants
Other adult dependants' pensions
E.2.
(1)
If an active member, a deferred member or a pensioner member dies leaving a surviving adult dependant and no surviving spouse or civil partner, the Secretary of State may award the surviving adult dependant a pension for life.
(2)
Paragraph (1) does not apply if the member is an active member who would not have qualified for a pension under rule D.2 (retirement before reaching pension age) if his service had ceased on the date of death otherwise than by reason of death.
(3)
A person is a surviving adult dependant in relation to a member for the purposes of this rule if the person satisfies the Secretary of State that at the time of the member’s death—
(a)
the person and the member were cohabiting as partners in an exclusive and substantial relationship,
(b)
the person and the member were not prevented from marrying (or would not have been so prevented apart from both being of the same sex), and
(c)
either the person was financially dependent on the member or the person and the member were financially interdependent.