{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-parliament-united-kingdom-representatives-pensions-amendment-order-2005/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-parliament-united-kingdom-representatives-pensions-amendment-order-2005/article-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/1924",
  "legislation_title": "The European Parliament (United Kingdom Representatives) Pensions (Amendment) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-parliament-united-kingdom-representatives-pensions-amendment-order-2005",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Pensions for surviving adult dependants",
  "text": "After article 12 of the Principal Order a new article shall be inserted –\n“Pensions for surviving adult dependants\n12A (1) For the purposes of this Order, surviving adult dependant means, in relation to a person who has died, a person who–\n(a) made and signed with the deceased person a declaration in a form prescribed by the Managers and the declaration was not subsequently cancelled by either partner by a signed revocation in such form as the Managers prescribed or otherwise accepted ; and\n(b) satisfies the Managers that at the time of the deceased person’s death –\n(i) the person and the deceased person were cohabiting as partners in an enduring long-term relationship and neither the person nor the deceased person was cohabiting with a third person as partners in an enduring long-term relationship;\n(ii) the person and the deceased person were not prevented from marrying (or would not have been so prevented apart from being of the same sex) or forming a civil partnership; and\n(iii) either the person was financially dependent on the deceased person or they were financially interdependent.\n(2) A surviving adult dependant of a person who–\n(a) was a participant at any time on or after 3rd November 2004;\n(b) was at the person’s death either –\n(i) a participant; or\n(ii) a pensioner; or\n(iii) a deferred pensioner; and\n(c) did not leave a widow or widower or surviving civil partner\nshall be entitled to receive a pension for life under this article.\n(3) The annual amount of a pension payable under this article to a surviving adult dependant shall be five-eighths of the basic or prospective pension or pensions of the deceased person.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/1924/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:56:06.158847+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."
}