{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clergy-pensions-amendment-regulations-1988/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clergy-pensions-amendment-regulations-1988/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/2239",
  "legislation_title": "The Clergy Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clergy-pensions-amendment-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of section 3 of Clergy Pensions (Amendment) Measure 1967",
  "text": "At the end of section 3 of the Clergy Pensions (Amendment) Measure 1967 (power to make lump sum payments) there shall be added the following subsections—\n“(3) For the purposes of any rules made under this section a scheme member who—\n(a) before attaining the retiring age ceases to perform pensionable service, and\n(b) on the date on which he attains that age is neither performing such service nor in receipt of a pension in respect of such service,\nshall be deemed to have retired on that date.\n(4) A clerk who—\n(a) is deposed from Holy Orders, or\n(b) executes a deed of relinquishment under the Clerical Disabilities Act 1870,\nis still a clerk for the purposes of any rules made under this section; and if at the date on which the clerk is so deposed or on which the deed is recorded in the diocesan registry under section 4 or 5 of that Act the clerk has attained the retiring age he shall be deemed to have retired on that date, and if at that date he has not attained the retiring age he shall be deemed to have retired on the date on which he attains that age.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1870 c. 91."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/2239/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:52:17.346630+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."
}