Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) Subject to sections 6 and 7, where an Administrator in office, or a former Administrator receiving or entitled to receive a pension under this Act, dies leaving a surviving spouse or de facto partner ( the surviving partner ), there is payable to the surviving partner for life a pension at two-thirds of the rate of pension:
(a) that would have been payable to the Administrator had he or she retired immediately before the date of his or her death and been eligible to receive a pension under this Act; or
(b) payable to the former Administrator (disregarding any amount of reduction of pension pursuant to section 7) immediately before the date of his or her death,
as the case may be.
(2) If the Administrator or former Administrator ( the deceased ) is survived by both a spouse and a de facto partner, the two-thirds pension is payable under subsection (1) to:
(a) the de facto partner if:
(i) the de facto partner was the de facto partner of the deceased for a continuous period of at least 2 years immediately preceding the deceased's death; and
(ii) the spouse had not lived with the deceased at any time during that period; or
(b) the spouse if paragraph (a) does not apply.