{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-widows-widowers-and-childrens-benefits-amendment-regulations-2014/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-widows-widowers-and-childrens-benefits-amendment-regulations-2014/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/288",
  "legislation_title": "The Judicial Pensions (Widows’, Widowers’ and Children’s Benefits) (Amendment) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-widows-widowers-and-childrens-benefits-amendment-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Judicial Pensions (Widows’ and Children’s Benefits) Regulations 1987",
  "text": "(1) The Judicial Pensions (Widows’ and Children’s Benefits) Regulations 1987 are amended as follows.\n(2) In paragraph (1) of regulation 2—\n(a) before the definition of “standard rate” insert—\n““spouse” includes a person who is married to a person of the same sex;”;\n(b) at the end of the paragraph insert—\n““widow” includes a man who was married to a male office-holder.”.\n(3) For “wife” wherever it occurs in regulations 4(2), 5(2) and 6(2), substitute “spouse”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/375, amended by S.I. 1991/2731 and 2006/749."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/288/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:27:07.940076+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."
}