{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-requisite-surviving-spouses-benefits-etc-order-1997/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-requisite-surviving-spouses-benefits-etc-order-1997/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2667",
  "legislation_title": "The Judicial Pensions (Requisite Surviving Spouses' Benefits etc) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-requisite-surviving-spouses-benefits-etc-order-1997",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Entitlement of surviving spouse to a pension",
  "text": "(1) Article 3 does not apply where, in relation to a reference scheme, a surviving spouse’s pension need not be paid by virtue of regulations made under section 12B(4)(a) of the Pension Schemes Act 1993.\n(2) In this article “reference scheme” has the meaning given to it in the Pension Schemes Act 1993.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1993 c. 48. Section 12B was inserted by the Pensions Act 1995 (c. 26), section 136."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/3325",
      "affecting_title": "The Civil Partnership (Judicial Pensions and Church Pensions, etc.) Order 2005"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2667/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:43:20.506561+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."
}