Payment where surviving spouse’s or common-law partner’s pension or children’s pension ceases
17Where for any reason a surviving spouse’s pension, surviving common-law partner’s pension or children’s pension ceases to be payable and no one remains to whom a pension is consequently payable, the amount by which the member’s contributions, together with interest, exceed all benefits derived from the member’s contributions shall be paid to the person whose pension so ceased or to that person’s estate.