Superannuation Act 1976

Where:

an eligible employee dies before attaining his or her maximum retiring age;

his or her period of contributory service is not less than 8 years;

there was in force in respect of him or her immediately before his or her death a benefit classification certificate and CSC is of the opinion that his or her death was caused, or was substantially contributed to, by a physical or mental condition or conditions specified in the certificate or by a physical or mental condition or conditions connected with such a condition or such conditions; and

he or she is not survived by a spouse but is survived by a person or persons who is or are his or her child or children;

at any time after his or her death when the surviving child or 1 or more of the surviving children is an eligible child or are eligible children—orphan pension is payable in respect of the eligible child or eligible children in accordance with subsection (2); and

if the deceased eligible employee had paid supplementary contributions and the surviving child or 1 or more of the surviving children is or are, immediately after his or her death, an eligible child or children or, in the opinion of CSC, is or are likely to become an eligible child or children—lump sum benefit is payable in respect of that child or those children in accordance with subsection (3).

Where, by virtue of paragraph (1)(e) of this section, orphan pension is at any time payable in respect of an eligible child or eligible children of a deceased eligible employee, the annual rate of the pension payable in respect of that child or those children is such percentage of the notional invalidity pension of the deceased eligible employee as is applicable under section 109.

Where, by virtue of paragraph (1)(f), lump sum benefit is payable in respect of a surviving child or surviving children of a deceased eligible employee, the lump sum benefit is an amount equal to the accumulated supplementary contributions of the deceased eligible employee.

The reference in subsection (2) of this section to the notional invalidity pension of a deceased eligible employee means:

subject to paragraph (b) of this subsection, the rate of the invalidity pension to which the eligible employee would have been entitled under section 70 if he or she had not died, but had, on the day immediately following the date of his or her death, become entitled to invalidity pension in accordance with that section; or

where an amount equal to the deceased eligible employee’s accumulated contributions has been paid out of the Fund under section 111—the rate of the invalidity pension to which the eligible employee would have been entitled under section 71 if he or she had not died, but had, on the day immediately following the date of his or her death, become entitled to invalidity pension and had made an election under that section.

Where a deceased eligible employee would, if he or she had not died but had retired on the ground of invalidity on the day of his or her death, have been entitled to invalidity benefit as provided by subsection 66(3) or (3A), this section applies in relation to him or her as if:

there were substituted for paragraph (1)(f) of this section provision that lump sum benefit equal to the accumulated contributions of the deceased eligible employee were payable in respect of the child or children referred to in that paragraph; and

paragraph (4)(b) of this section applied in relation to him or her.