{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/church-of-england-pensions-measure-2018/section-36",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/church-of-england-pensions-measure-2018/section-36.json",
  "legislation": "ukcm/2018/9",
  "legislation_title": "Church of England Pensions Measure 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/church-of-england-pensions-measure-2018",
  "path": "section/36",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "36",
  "heading": "Determination of questions",
  "text": "(1) The Board is to decide any question arising as to—\n(a) whether a clerk, deaconess or licensed lay worker has performed or is performing pensionable service;\n(b) the length of a qualifying period of pensionable service in any given case or the date on which a qualifying period ended;\n(c) whether a member of the past service scheme satisfies any other conditions for receiving a pension under the scheme or the terms and conditions on which the pension is payable;\n(d) whether a member of the scheme has retired or the date on which the member retired;\n(e) the rate at which a pension under the scheme is to be paid;\n(f) the right of a member of the scheme to a repayment of payments made by him or her;\n(g) the rights of a surviving spouse or civil partner or of a child or dependant of a member (including whether or not a particular person is a dependant of a member).\n(2) Before making a decision under subsection (1), the Board must give the member or other person concerned, or his or her agent, an opportunity to be heard.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 36 in force at 1.3.2019 by S.I. 2019/98, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukcm/2018/9/section/36",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:22:14.553873+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."
}