{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-scotland-regulations-2015/regulation-82",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-scotland-regulations-2015/regulation-82.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2015/19",
  "legislation_title": "The Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-scotland-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/82",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "82",
  "heading": "Reduction in pensions in cases of wide age disparity",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies if, on the death of a member of this scheme, a surviving partner’s pension is payable to a person who is more than 12 years younger than the member.\n(2) The annual rate of that pension is reduced by the lower of—\n(a) 50% of the amount of the annual rate of the pension so calculated; or\n(b) 2.5×( N−12 )% of that amount,\nwhere N is the number of whole years by which the surviving partner is younger than the member.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 82 in force at 1.4.2015, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2015/19/regulation/82",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:31:38.589226+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."
}