{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-transitional-provisions-scotland-regulations-2008/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-transitional-provisions-scotland-regulations-2008/regulation-8.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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Deferred members: limit on death grant",
  "text": "Where a person to whom regulation 3 applies becomes a deferred member after 31st March 2009 and dies before the person’s pension comes into payment, the sum of any death grants to which the person is entitled under any provision of the Scheme or of the 1998 Scheme, as continued in effect by regulation 3, shall be the person’s retirement pension multiplied by five.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 8 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/8",
    "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."
}