{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-requisite-surviving-spouses-benefits-etc-order-northern-ireland-1997/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-requisite-surviving-spouses-benefits-etc-order-northern-ireland-1997/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1997/479",
  "legislation_title": "The Judicial Pensions (Requisite Surviving Spouses' Benefits etc) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-requisite-surviving-spouses-benefits-etc-order-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Entitlement of surviving spouse to a pension",
  "text": "Subject to Article 4, in any case—\n(a) where a member of a judicial pension scheme dies leaving a surviving spouse; and\n(b) where the deceased member has retired from qualifying judicial office, the marriage took place before his retirement;\nthe surviving spouse shall be entitled to receive a pension under the scheme.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 3 in operation at 1.12.1997, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/3325",
      "affecting_title": "The Civil Partnership (Judicial Pensions and Church Pensions, etc.) Order 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/3325",
      "affecting_title": "The Civil Partnership (Judicial Pensions and Church Pensions, etc.) Order 2005"
    },
    {
      "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/nisr/1997/479/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:26:26.491322+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."
}