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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-1997/regulation-44",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1612",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/44",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "44",
  "heading": "Meaning of “eligible child”",
  "text": "(1) The eligible child of a deceased member is—\n(a) the deceased’s legitimate or adopted child, or\n(b) a child who was wholly or mainly dependent on the deceased at the time of his death.\n(2) A person only counts as a child if—\n(a) he is aged under 17,\n(b) since he became 17 he has been engaged continuously in full-time education or in training for a trade, profession or vocation, or\n(c) he is physically or mentally incapacitated and became so whilst a child within paragraph (a) or (b).\n(3) If an appropriate administering authority wish, they may treat education or training as continuous despite a break.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/770",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Miscellaneous) Regulations 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2006/966",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2006"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2006/966",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2006"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2008/2425",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Miscellaneous) Regulations 2008"
    },
    {
      "type": "modified by SI 2008/238 Sch. 1 (as amended)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2008/2425",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Miscellaneous) Regulations 2008"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1612/regulation/44",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:06:30.691853+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."
}