{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-1995/regulation-G7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-1995/regulation-G7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/1019",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/G7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "G7",
  "heading": "Pensioner’s children’s short-term pension",
  "text": "(1) Subject to regulation G8(2), where a person who—\n(a) was entitled to receive payments in respect of a retirement pension (other than a pension sole entitlement to which is under regulation D17 or a pension under regulation D19), or\n(b) would have been so entitled but for a payment under regulation H6 (commutation in exceptional circumstances of ill-health) or the operation of Part I of Schedule D5 (re-employed pensioners),\ndies leaving one or more eligible children, they are entitled to or to the benefit of a children’s short-term pension for 6 months after the death.\n(2) Subject to regulation G8(1), the annual rate of a children’s short-term pension is the rate at which a surviving spouse’s short-term pension would have been payable by virtue of regulation F4 (but, in a case where there is a widower, disregarding regulation F8(2)).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/1613",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "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/1995/1019/regulation/G7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:11:15.645770+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."
}