{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/regulation-G7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/regulation-G7.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/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 D16 or a pension under regulation D18), or\n(b) would have been so entitled but for a payment under regulation H6 or, as the case may be, regulation 52 of the 2002 Regulations (commutation in exceptional circumstances of ill-health) or the operation of Part I of Schedule D5 or, as the case may be, regulation 113 (abatement) of the 2002 Regulations (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 paragraph (3) and 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 F7(2)).\n(3) In the case of a person who was a pension debit member the annual rate of children’s short-term pension is equal to the retirement pension to which the deceased person would have been entitled had his shareable rights not been subject to a pension debit.",
  "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": "Words in reg. G7(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. 19(a) (with Sch. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. G7(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. 19(b) (with Sch. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. G7(2) inserted (with effect from 1.12.2000) by Local Government Pension Scheme (Pension Sharing on Divorce) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 (S.R. 2001/61), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 6(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. G7(3) added (with effect from 1.12.2000) by Local Government Pension Scheme (Pension Sharing on Divorce) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 (S.R. 2001/61), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 6(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. G7 in operation at 1.8.2000, see reg. A1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2000/177/regulation/G7",
    "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."
}