{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-requisite-surviving-spouses-benefits-etc-order-northern-ireland-1997/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-requisite-surviving-spouses-benefits-etc-order-northern-ireland-1997/article-4.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/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 8B(4) of the Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993.\n(2) In this Article ‘reference scheme' has the meaning given to it in the Pensions Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 4 in operation at 1.12.1997, see art. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1993 c. 49; section 8B was inserted by the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/3213) (N.I. 22), Article 133"
    }
  ],
  "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/nisr/1997/479/article/4",
    "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."
}