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PART 10PENSION SHARING

CHAPTER IVAPPROPRIATE RIGHTS/PENSION CREDIT BENEFITS

“Appropriate Rights”/“Pension credit benefits” under the Scheme

95.—(1) Except as referred to in this regulation or otherwise in this Part of the Scheme, the appropriate rights under the Scheme to which a pension credit member shall be entitled shall consist only of a pension, a retirement grant and rights in relation to a death grant as provided under the Scheme.

(2) Pension credit benefits are subject to the same indexing as other benefits payable under the Scheme.

(3) The amount of the retirement grant to which a pension credit member shall be entitled shall be calculated on the same basis as if the pension credit member’s pension were a deferred pension under the Scheme, except that no retirement grant shall be paid to the pension credit member if the corresponding pension debit member has already received a retirement grant from the Scheme before the date of the implementation of the pension sharing order.

(4) Regulations 23 (death grants: active members), 32 (death grants: deferred members) or 35 (death grants: pensioner members) of the Benefits Regulations shall apply in relation to a pension credit member.

(5) A pension credit member is entitled to his or her pension credit benefits on reaching his or her normal benefit age.

(6) The pension credit benefits are payable immediately on reaching normal retirement age and may not be deferred.