{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/regulation-E4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/regulation-E4.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2000/177",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2000",
  "path": "regulation/E4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "E4",
  "heading": "Death grant: pensioners",
  "text": "(1) If at the time of his death a person—\n(a) was entitled to receive payments in respect of a retirement pension (excluding a pension to which he would not be entitled apart from regulation D16 or D18), or\n(b) would have been so entitled but for the operation of Schedule D5 (re-employed pensioners) or regulation 113 (abatement) of the 2002 Regulations,\nthere shall be paid a lump sum death grant in accordance with regulation E8.\n(2) The amount of the death grant payable under paragraph (1) is an amount equal to the total amount that would (or would but for Schedule D5 (re-employed pensioners) or regulation 113 (abatement) of the 2002 Regulations or his death, or both) have been paid to him by way of retirement pension for the first 5 years after he became (or would but for Schedule D5 or regulation 113 (abatement) of the 2002 Regulations have become) entitled to receive payments in respect of the pension, reduced by the total of any payments made to him in respect of the pension.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked (1.4.2015) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014 (S.R. 2014/189), regs. 1(1), 2, Sch. 2 (with savings and transitional provisions in reg. 3, Sch. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. E4 substituted (with effect from 1.12.2000) by Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 (S.R. 2001/63), regs. 1(2), 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. E4(1)(b) inserted (1.2.2003) by Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment No. 2 and Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 (S.R. 2002/353), reg. 1(1), Sch. 4 para. 10(a) (with Sch. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. E4(2) inserted (1.2.2003) by Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment No. 2 and Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 (S.R. 2002/353), reg. 1(1), Sch. 4 para. 10(a) (with Sch. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. E4(2) inserted (1.2.2003) by Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment No. 2 and Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 (S.R. 2002/353), reg. 1(1), Sch. 4 para. 10(b) (with Sch. 5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2000/177/regulation/E4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:15:32.787353+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."
}