SECTION 6: FAMILY BENEFITS
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Balance of contributions for widow’s pension
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Account of contributions for widow’s pension
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| 6.07 |
When a member dies in service or withdraws from the Scheme
or leaves employment, an account of contributions for widow’s pension shall
be taken in accordance with the next two Rules for the purpose of ensuring
that contributions have been or are paid:
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(i) |
in the case of a member who is married when he withdraws from
the Scheme or his employment ceases:
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(a) |
for his reckonable service on or after 6 April 1978; for this
purpose reckonable service includes service which is disregarded under Rule
4.51, 4.52 or 4.53, and if his reckonable service during the period beginning
on 6 April 1978 exceeds 40 years by the retiring age or 45 years in total
the limits in Rule 3.07 will not apply for the purposes of this Rule: and
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(b) |
in the case of a former non industrial scheme member subject
to proviso (c) and (d) to Rule 6.04 for any enhancement of his reckonable
service under the second sentence of Rule 6.04 if he dies in service under
Rules 5.01 or 5.04 if he is retired on medical grounds or under Rule 8.04
of Appendix 8 if he is retired prematurely (in the public interest or on
other grounds);
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(c) |
subject to Rule 6.14, for his reckonable service prior to
6 April 1978.
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(ii) |
in the case of a member who when he withdraws from the Scheme
or his employment ceases, was never married, or who was married but is no
longer married, for the aggregate of:
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(a) |
his reckonable service on or after 6 April 1978 (including
any added year approved for purchase on or after that date save, in the
case of a former non industrial scheme member, an added year purchased by
an ex-civil servant within the category specified in Rule 6.14); except
that, if he dies in service or withdraws from the Scheme or leaves employment
without qualifying for payment of a pension to his widow under Rule 6.01
and without applying for a transfer value under Part 1 of Section 9, account
shall be taken only of his reckonable service (if any) before his last marriage
(if any) ended; for the purposes of this paragraph reckonable service includes
service which is disregarded under Rules 4.51, 4.52 or 4.53, and if his
reckonable service during the period beginning on 6 April 1978 exceeds 40
years by retiring age or 45 years in total the limits in Rule 3.07 will
not apply for the purposes of this Rule;
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(b) |
his reckonable service prior to 6 April 1978 (including any
added year not taken into account under sub-paragraph (a), save in the case
of a former non industrial scheme member an added year purchased by an ex-civil
servant within the category specified in Rule 6.14); except that:
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(1) |
if he never had a wife while he was a member of any of the
Authority’s superannuation schemes, none of his reckonable service before
6 April 1978 shall be taken into account;
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(2) |
in the case of a former non industrial scheme member, if his
reckonable service prior to 6 April 1978 is excluded under Rule 6.14, that
reckonable service shall not be taken into account;
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(3) |
if he died in service or left employment before 6 April 1978,
being unmarried at the time, or if he was in service on 5 April 1978, being
unmarried on that date, account under sub-paragraph (b) shall be taken only
of his reckonable service before his last marriage (if any) ended, unless
that date was before 14 July 1949 in which case none of his reckonable service
before 6 April 1978 shall be taken into account.
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(c) |
any enhancement of his reckonable service under Rules 5.01
or 5.04 if he is retired on medical grounds or under Rule 8.04 of Appendix
8 if he is retired prematurely (in the public interest or on other grounds);
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Where, in the case of a former non industrial scheme member,
before 7 October 1992 a member’s reckonable service is limited under Rule
3.07 to 40 years by retiring age or 45 years in total, then for the purposes
of this Rule the limit shall be applied only to reckonable service for which
an account is required under this Rule, and shall be so applied by limiting
reckonable service which relates to service before 6 April 1978. Where in
the case of a former non industrial scheme member the member’s reckonable
service has been enhanced under Rule 8.04 of Appendix 8 on the basis of
the first proviso to that Rule, pensionable final earnings shall be calculated
for the purposes of this Rule, the next two Rules and Rule 6.04 as it would
be at age 60 (or 65 as the case may be) on the assumptions specified in
the said proviso.
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