Police Regulation (Pensions) Act 1958

If the partner of the member or pensioner is alive—

where there is not more than three such children or adult children, an amount equal to 10 per cent of the member's or pensioner's pension;

where there are four or more such children or adult children, an amount equal to 30 per cent of the member's or pensioner's pension divided by the number of children and adult children in respect of whom the pension is for the time being payable—

If the partner of the member or pensioner is dead or divorced the pension applicable to a child or adult child shall be—

where there is one such child or adult child, an amount equal to 45 per cent of the pension of the deceased member or pensioner;

where there are two such children or adult children, an amount equal to 40 per cent of the pension of the deceased member or pensioner;

where there are three such children or adult children, an amount equal to 30 per cent of the pension of the deceased member or pensioner;

where there are four or more such children or adult children, an amount equal to the pension of the deceased member or pensioner divided by the number of children and adult children in respect of whom the pension is for the time being payable—

In this clause pension of a member or pensioner means—

on the death of a member before retirement, the pension to which the member would have been entitled if he or she had been of an age to retire at the time of his or her death; and

on the death of the member after retirement the pension payable to him or her at the time of his or her retirement.

Where but for this clause pensions would be payable in respect of a child or adult child as a child or adult child of more than one member only the pension which is the greater shall be payable in respect of that child or adult child.

A pension is not payable under this clause in respect of a child born more than ten months after the death of the member or pensioner.