{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-financial-assistance-scheme-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-2009/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-financial-assistance-scheme-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-2009/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2009/9780111480595",
  "legislation_title": "The Financial Assistance Scheme (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-financial-assistance-scheme-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-2009",
  "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 or 17C of, and Schedule 2 to, the FAS Regulations;\n“beneficiary” means a qualifying member or, after a qualifying member’s death, the survivor and surviving dependants of that qualifying member;\n“ill health payment” means a payment made to a beneficiary determined in accordance with regulation 17A of, and Schedule 2A to, the FAS Regulations;\n“initial payment” means a payment made to a beneficiary in accordance with regulation 18 of, and Schedule 2 to, the FAS Regulations;\n“interim ill health payment” means a payment made to a beneficiary in accordance with regulation 17B of, and Schedule 2A to, the FAS Regulations;\n“surviving dependant” shall be construed in accordance with regulation 16B of the FAS Regulations;\n“survivor” shall be construed in accordance with regulation 16A of the FAS Regulations;\n“the FAS Regulations” means the Financial Assistance Scheme Regulations 2005;\n“the FAS Appeals Regulations” means the Financial Assistance Scheme (Appeals) Regulations 2005;\n“the FAS Information and Payments Regulations” means the Financial Assistance Scheme (Provision of Information and Administration of Payments) Regulations 2005; and\n“the FAS Internal Review Regulations” means the Financial Assistance Scheme (Internal Review) Regulations 2005.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Regulation 16B is inserted into the FAS Regulations by these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Regulation 16A is inserted into the FAS Regulations by these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2005/1986 as amended by S.I. 2005/3256, 2006/3370, 2007/3581, 2008/1432, 2008/1903, 2008/3069, 2008/3241 and 2009/792."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 2005/3273 as amended by S.I. 2006/3370, 2008/1903, 2008/2683 and 2009/792."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "S.I. 2005/2189 as amended by S.I. 2005/3256, 2007/3581, 2008/1903 and 2009/792."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "S.I. 2005/1994 as amended by S.I. 2005/3256, 2006/349, 2006/3370, 2008/1903 and 2009/792."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2009/9780111480595/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:57:10.208862+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."
}