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JUDICIAL PENSIONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1951 - SECT 5

Lump sum on retirement or death.

5.(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 legal personal representatives 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, his legal personal
representatives may be granted a lump sum equal to the deficiency.

Subs.(4) spent

Power to grant widows' and children's pensions.

© 1951 Crown Copyright

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