62Eligibility for death or invalidity benefit

62 Eligibility for death or invalidity benefit

(1)  A member to whom this Part applies is entitled to be paid an invalidity benefit if –

(a) the Committee is satisfied, on the report of a medical practitioner appointed by the Committee, that the member has been rendered totally and permanently incapable of performing the duties of a member, by reason of ill-health or physical incapacity or mental incapacity; and

(b) the member ceases to be a member.

(2)  A member is not entitled to be paid an invalidity benefit unless he or she makes application, in writing to the Committee, for such a benefit while still a member and the Committee has made a determination while the applicant is still a member.

(3)  On the death of a member, a death benefit is payable to –

(a) the surviving partner of the member; or

(b) if there is no surviving partner – the person with whom the member was in a caring relationship which was the subject of a deed of relationship registered under Part 2 of the Relationships Act 2003 , which deed was revoked by the death of the member; or

(c) if there is no person referred to in paragraph (a) or (b)  – the legal personal representative of the member, subject to the production of grant of probate or letters of administration.