{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-discretionary-payments-regulations-1996/regulation-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-discretionary-payments-regulations-1996/regulation-22.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1680",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government (Discretionary Payments) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-discretionary-payments-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/22",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Entitlement to children’s short-term compensation",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies where an eligible person who has been granted a credited period under regulation 8 dies and is survived by an eligible child or children—\n(a) who is or are entitled to receive a children’s short-term pension under regulation G4 or G7 of the LGPS Regulations in relation to the deceased’s former employment; or\n(b) who would be so entitled apart from—\n(i) a relevant disqualification with respect to the deceased (and on the relevant assumptions); or\n(ii) the transfer of benefits to another pension scheme.\n(2) Where this regulation applies, children’s short-term compensation is payable to or for the benefit of such eligible child or eligible children as are mentioned in paragraph (1)—\n(a) if a children’s short-term pension under regulation G4 or G7 of the LGPS Regulations is payable for the period of 3 months beginning with the date of the death, for that period; and\n(b) otherwise, for the period of 6 months beginning with that date.\n(3) Children’s short-term compensation is not payable in respect of a period for which surviving spouse’s short-term compensation is payable to the surviving spouse of the deceased.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/1613",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/1613",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 1997"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1680/regulation/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:40:18.467098+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."
}