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COUNTY COURTS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1959 - SECT 121

Lump sum on retirement or death.

121.(1) Where a person on retirement becomes eligible for a pension for
service, he may be granted a lump sum equal to twice the annual amount of that
pension.

(2) Where a person was serving at the time of his death and, if he had then
retired on the ground of permanent infirmity, would have become eligible for a
pension for that service, his representative may be granted a lump sum equal
to

(a)twice the annual amount of the pension for which he would have been so
eligible; or

(b)his last annual salary;

(3) Where a person on retirement becomes eligible for a pension for service
but dies so soon thereafter that the sums paid or payable to him on account of
that pension plus an amount equal to twice the annual amount of that pension
fall short of his last annual salary for such service, there may be granted to
his representatives a lump sum equal to the deficiency.

Power to grant widows' and children's pensions.

© 1959 Crown Copyright

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