{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-regulations-2022/regulation-77",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-regulations-2022/regulation-77.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2022/319",
  "legislation_title": "The Judicial Pensions Regulations 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-regulations-2022",
  "path": "regulation/77",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "77",
  "heading": "Meaning of “surviving cohabiting partner”",
  "text": "A person (P) is a surviving cohabiting partner of a deceased member of this scheme if P satisfies the scheme manager that immediately before the member’s death—\n(a) P and the member were cohabiting as partners in an exclusive, committed long-term relationship;\n(b) P and the member were not prevented from entering into a marriage or a civil partnership; and\n(c) either P was financially dependent on the member or P and the member were financially interdependent.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 77 in force at 1.4.2022, see reg. 1(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/319/regulation/77",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:02:21.380450+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."
}