{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-financial-assistance-scheme-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-2008/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-financial-assistance-scheme-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-2008/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2008/9780110814063",
  "legislation_title": "The Financial Assistance Scheme (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-financial-assistance-scheme-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“annual payment” means the amount payable to a beneficiary in respect of each year determined in accordance with regulation 17 of, and Schedule 2 to, the FAS Regulations;\n“beneficiary” means a qualifying member or, after his death, his survivor;\n“initial payment” means a payment made to a beneficiary in accordance with regulation 18 of, and Schedule 2 to, the FAS Regulations;\n“qualifying member” shall be construed in accordance with regulation 15 of the FAS Regulations;\n“survivor” means, in relation to a member or former member of a qualifying pension scheme who has died—\n(a) the member’s widow or widower; or\n(b) the member’s surviving civil partner,\nbut shall not include a person who comes within paragraph (a) or (b) but who is regarded as a qualifying member by virtue of regulation 15(5) of the FAS Regulations;\n“the FAS Regulations” means the Financial Assistance Scheme Regulations 2005.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2005/1986, amended by S.I. 2005/3256, 2006/3370 and 2007/3581."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2008/9780110814063/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:16:33.507540+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."
}