Amendment of the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 201315

In regulation 40 (death grants: active members)—

a

in paragraph (3) at the end add “, but 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 is to be taken of any reduction in pensionable pay due to such reduction in service as is attributable to that condition”; and

b

after paragraph (4) insert—

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In the case of an active member who is also a deferred member, pensioner member or deferred pensioner member of the Scheme, no death grant is payable under regulations 43 (death grants: deferred members) or 46 (death grants: pensioner members) but if the amount that would be payable under any of those regulations would be higher than the amount payable under this regulation, the amount payable under this regulation is that higher amount.