{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-transitional-provisions-scotland-regulations-2008/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-transitional-provisions-scotland-regulations-2008/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2008/229",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Transitional Provisions) (Scotland) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-transitional-provisions-scotland-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Survivor benefits",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), any survivor benefits payable in respect of a person to whom regulation 3 or 4 applies are calculated as if the Benefits Regulations applied to all of the membership, whether accrued before or after 1st April 2009.\n(2) The survivor benefits payable in respect of a deferred member to whom regulation 4 does not apply are calculated as if the total membership before 1st April 2009 was a separate period of membership to which the conditions in force at the time the person became a deferred member apply.\n(3) Regulation 41 of the 1998 Regulations continues to apply to a deferred or pensioner member who marries or enters into a civil partnership after becoming such a member.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 7 in force at 1.4.2009, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "ssi/2008/229",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Transitional Provisions) (Scotland) Regulations 2008"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2008/229/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-10T03:32:52.031817+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."
}