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44.—(1) If a deferred member dies leaving a surviving spouse, civil partner or cohabiting partner, that person is entitled to a pension which shall come into payment on the day following the member's death.
(2) The appropriate administering authority shall close the deferred member's pension account and shall open a survivor member's pension account from the day following the member's death.
(3) The opening balance of the survivor member's pension account is the amount of pension payable to the survivor calculated in accordance with paragraph (4).
(4) The amount of a pension payable under paragraph (3) is calculated by adding together the pension that the member would have been entitled to draw [F1excluding any final guarantee amount under regulation 4B or 4C of the 2014 Regulations] if—
(a)the member had been able to draw a pension on the date the member died;
(b)the pension the member would have been able to draw on that date had not been subject to any restriction on the age at which it could be drawn, or actuarial adjustment either relating to the age at which it was drawn or following a Scheme pays election;
(c)the pension excluded any additional pension purchased under regulation 16 (additional pension contributions) and any additional pension awarded under regulation 31 (award of additional pension);
(d)the pension included 30.625% of any additional pension purchased under regulation 17(7)(b)(i) (additional voluntary contributions);
(e)the member's earned pension had accrued at a rate of 1/160th of pensionable pay; and
(f)the amount of any earned pension credited under regulation 101(1) (effect of acceptance of transfer value) has been multiplied by 49/160.
[F2(4A) For the purposes of paragraph (4), if the member—
(a)died in the period beginning with 1st April and ending with 5th April in the Scheme year following the Scheme year in which the member ceased to be an active member; or
(b)ceased to be an active member and became a deferred member in the period beginning with 1st April and ending with 5th April in a Scheme year and subsequently died within that same period,
the pension is deemed to include the revaluation adjustment that would have been due at the next revaluation date.]
(5) If the member ceased to be an active member, became a deferred member and died all within the same Scheme year, the balance in the survivor member's pension account at the end of the Scheme year in which the survivor member's account was opened is adjusted [F3on the revaluation date in] the following Scheme year by the revaluation adjustment applicable to the Scheme year in which the survivor member's account was opened, [F4and takes effect from the start of the Scheme year following the Scheme year in which the survivor member’s account was opened,] in accordance with actuarial guidance issued by the Secretary of State.
(6) Where—
(a)paragraph (5) applies, the F5... balance calculated under paragraph [F6(3)] is the opening balance of the survivor member's pension account for the following Scheme year [F7and the revaluation adjustment is applied to the balance in accordance with paragraph (5)];
(b)paragraph (5) does not apply, the balance under paragraph (3) is the opening balance of the survivor member's pension account for the following Scheme year,
and, thereafter, the balance in the account is adjusted each year by the index rate adjustment from the date that an increase would apply if that balance were a pension in payment to which the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971 M1 applied.
[F8(6A) Where an index rate adjustment is due to be made on a revaluation date, any such adjustment must be made immediately after the revaluation adjustment is made.]
(7) If there is more than one surviving spouse, they become jointly entitled in equal shares under paragraph (1).
(8) This regulation applies to deferred pensioner members as it applies to deferred members [F9with the modification that for the purposes of paragraph (4) the amount of pension the member would have been entitled to draw assumes that there had been no commutation under regulation 33 (election for lump sum instead of pension)].
Textual Amendments
F1Words in reg. 44(4) inserted (1.10.2023) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/972), regs. 1(2), 3(8)
F2Reg. 44(4A) inserted (31.3.2023) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/279), regs. 1(1), 6(1)(a)
F3Words in reg. 44(5) substituted (31.3.2023) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/279), regs. 1(1), 6(1)(b)(i)
F4Words in reg. 44(5) inserted (31.3.2023) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/279), regs. 1(1), 6(1)(b)(ii)
F5Word in reg. 44(6)(a) omitted (31.3.2023) by virtue of The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/279), regs. 1(1), 6(1)(c)(i)
F6Word in reg. 44(6)(a) substituted (31.3.2023) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/279), regs. 1(1), 6(1)(c)(ii)
F7Words in reg. 44(6)(a) inserted (31.3.2023) by virtue of The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/279), regs. 1(1), 6(1)(c)(iii)
F8Reg. 44(6A) inserted (31.3.2023) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/279), regs. 1(1), 6(1)(d)
F9Words in reg. 44(8) added (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(b) of the amending S.I.) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/755), regs. 1(2), 18
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