{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-pension-scheme-order-2005/schedule-3/paragraph-79",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-pension-scheme-order-2005/schedule-3/paragraph-79.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/438",
  "legislation_title": "The Armed Forces Pension Scheme Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-pension-scheme-order-2005",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/79",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "79",
  "heading": "Multiple beneficiaries: including adult eligible children",
  "text": "(1) Where—\n(a) two or more adults are the only beneficiaries,\n(b) none of those adults is a surviving adult, and\n(c) two or more of those adults are eligible children,\nthe eligible decision-maker is determined in accordance with sub-paragraph (2).\n(2) The eligible decision-maker is—\n(a) the person agreed upon by the adult eligible children, or\n(b) the Scheme manager, where no decision about whether to make an election has been received by the Scheme manager by the day by which an election must, in accordance with this Schedule, be received by the Scheme manager.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 inserted (1.10.2023) by The Armed Forces Pensions (Remediable Service) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/998), reg. 1(b), Sch. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/438/schedule/3/paragraph/79",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:08:49.366834+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}