{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-superannuation-amendment-regulations-1992/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-superannuation-amendment-regulations-1992/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/172",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Amendment) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-superannuation-amendment-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Amounts of children’s short-term and long-term pensions",
  "text": "Regulation E9 of the principal Regulations is amended—\n(a) by substituting for paragraphs (1) and (2) the following:\n“(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the annual rate of a children’s short-term pension is the rate at which a widow’s short-term pension would have been payable by virtue of regulation E5(1) or, as the case may be, the rate at which a widower’s short-term pension would have been payable under that regulation if regulation E6(3)(a) were disregarded.\n(2) Where a widow’s short-term pension is payable by virtue of regulation E5(5) or a widower’s short-term pension is payable by virtue of regulation E5(1), and the child is in the care of the widow or widower, the children’s short-term pension rate specified in paragraph (1) is reduced by the rate of that pension.”;\n(b) in paragraph (3), by substituting for the words “widow” and “widow's” in each place where they occur the words “widow or widower” and “widow’s or widower's” respectively;\n(c) in paragraph (4)—\n(i) by inserting at the beginning the words “Subject to paragraph (4A)”;\n(ii) in sub-paragraph (a), by substituting for the words “in a local government employment” the words “a pensionable employee”;\n(iii) in sub-paragraph (b), by inserting after the words “preserved benefits” the words “, or was at that time in a local government employment and would have been so entitled if he had ceased to hold that employment immediately before that time,”;\n(d) by inserting after paragraph (4) the following:\n“(4A) Unless the retirement pension determined under paragraph (4) would be greater, the retirement pension of a deceased person shall be taken to be that to which he would have been entitled if he were entitled to reckon the lesser of—\n(a) 10 years' reckonable service;\n(b) the reckonable service which he would have been entitled to reckon if he had continued to be employed until his 65th birthday.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/172/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:30:18.689893+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."
}