# The Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 1995, Paragraph 4


(1) Subject to paragraph 5 and 6, where—
(a) the person—
(i) is a widower;
(ii) is judicially separated from his wife; or
(iii) is a man whose marriage has been dissolved; and
(b) the death or, as the case may be, the separation or dissolution occurred after the relevant date,
the standard retirement grant (as increased in accordance with Part I of this Schedule, if appropriate) is reduced by two eightieths of his pensionable remuneration, multiplied by the length in years of any period of membership before 1st April 1972, or, if earlier, the date of the death, separation of dissolution.
(2) In sub-paragraph (1)(b) “the relevant date” means—
(a) 30th September 1950; or
(b) if, but for the revocation of the 1974 regulations, sub-paragraph (ii) of regulation E3(6) of those regulations (certain cases where local Act provisions had applied before 1st April 1974) would have applied, the date that would have been the relevant date for the purposes of that sub-paragraph.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/1019/schedule/D2/paragraph/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-1995/schedule-D2/paragraph-4
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