{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-act-1981/section-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-act-1981/section-19.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1981/20",
  "legislation_title": "Judicial Pensions Act 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-act-1981",
  "path": "section/19",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Widows', widowers' and surviving civil partners' pensions",
  "text": "(1) No widow's, widower's or surviving civil partner's pension may be granted if the marriage or formation of the civil partnership with the deceased took place after he or she retired from relevant service.\n(2) A widow's, widower's or surviving civil partner's pension shall come to an end on the death of the widow, widower or surviving civil partner.\n(3) Where a widow's, widower's or surviving civil partner's pension is payable the Treasury may, on or at any time after\n(a) the remarriage of, or formation of a civil partnership by, the widow or widower, or\n(b) the formation of a subsequent civil partnership by, or the marriage of, the surviving civil partner,\ndirect that it shall cease to be payable.\n(4) Where such a direction has been given the Treasury may at any time direct that payment of the pension is to be resumed.\n(5) The annual amount of a widow's, widower's or surviving civil partner's pension may be one half of the annual amount of the personal pension.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 19 substituted (1.1.1992) by Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41, SIF 76:1), s. 80; S.I. 1991/2730, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in S. 19(1) substituted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership (Judicial Pensions and Church Pensions, etc.) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/3325), art. 56(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 19(1) inserted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership (Judicial Pensions and Church Pensions, etc.) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/3325), art. 56(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in S. 19(2) substituted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership (Judicial Pensions and Church Pensions, etc.) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/3325), art. 56(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 19(2) substituted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership (Judicial Pensions and Church Pensions, etc.) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/3325), art. 56(4)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 19(3) substituted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership (Judicial Pensions and Church Pensions, etc.) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/3325), art. 56(5)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 19(3) substituted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership (Judicial Pensions and Church Pensions, etc.) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/3325), art. 56(5)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 19(5) substituted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership (Judicial Pensions and Church Pensions, etc.) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/3325), art. 56(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "S. 19 sidenote substituted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership (Judicial Pensions and Church Pensions, etc.) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/3325), art. 56(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/20/section/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:14:16.188680+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."
}