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The Financial Assistance Scheme (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2008

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1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Financial Assistance Scheme (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2008 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which they are made.

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations—

“annual payment” means the amount payable to a beneficiary in respect of each year determined in accordance with regulation 17 of, and Schedule 2 to, the FAS Regulations;

“beneficiary” means a qualifying member or, after his death, his survivor;

“initial payment” means a payment made to a beneficiary in accordance with regulation 18 of, and Schedule 2 to, the FAS Regulations;

“qualifying member” shall be construed in accordance with regulation 15 of the FAS Regulations;

“survivor” means, in relation to a member or former member of a qualifying pension scheme who has died—

(a)

the member’s widow or widower; or

(b)

the member’s surviving civil partner,

but shall not include a person who comes within paragraph (a) or (b) but who is regarded as a qualifying member by virtue of regulation 15(5) of the FAS Regulations;

“the FAS Regulations” means the Financial Assistance Scheme Regulations 2005(1).

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