Amendment of the Local Government Pension Scheme (Benefits, Membership and Contributions) Regulations 2007

11.  In regulation 28 (children’s pensions: active members) for paragraph (1), substitute—

(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (a) and to any adjustment appropriate as a result of the provisions specified in sub-paragraph (b), the amount of the pension of an eligible child of a deceased active member is calculated in accordance with the method specified in paragraph (2) or paragraph (3) (as appropriate)—

(a)where, in the opinion of an IRMP the member was at the date of death, in part-time service wholly or partly as a result of the condition that caused or contributed to the member’s death, no account shall be taken of any reduction in membership due to such reduction in service as is attributable to that condition;

(b)the provisions mentioned above are—

(i)regulations 14 and 15 of these Regulations;

(ii)regulations 23 to 24 and 25 to 26 of the Administration Regulations..