{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-social-security-inherited-serpsamendment-regulations-2005/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-social-security-inherited-serpsamendment-regulations-2005/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2005/0110517806",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Inherited SERPS)(Amendment) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-social-security-inherited-serpsamendment-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Social Security (Inherited SERPS) Regulations 2001",
  "text": "In the Social Security (Inherited SERPS) Regulations 2001—\n(a) after paragraph (3) of regulation 2 (modification of Part II of the Contributions and Benefits Act) there shall be added the following paragraph—\n“(4) Where, on or after 6th April 2006, a person becomes a person of a description specified in Column 1 of the Schedule to these Regulations and entitled to a widowed person’s lump sum under paragraph 7A of Schedule 5 to the Contributions and Benefits Act, paragraph 7B(3) of Schedule 5 to that Act shall have effect so that the half of the additional pension specified in paragraph (b) of the definition of “P” is increased by the percentage specified in Column 2 of the Schedule to these Regulations.”;\n(b) in the heading to the Schedule, for “Regulation 2(2)” there shall be substituted “Regulation 2(2) and (4)”;\n(c) at the end of the title to the Schedule, there shall be added the words “AND IN THE PROPORTION OF ADDITIONAL PENSION USED IN THE CALCULATION OF A WIDOWED PERSON’S LUMP SUM PAYABLE TO SUCH PERSONS”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I.2001/1085."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "i.e. the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (c.4). Paragraphs 7A and 7B were inserted by the Pensions Act 2004, Schedule 11, paragraph 11(1)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2005/0110517806/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:23:16.961800+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."
}