{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-superannuation-regulations-1986/regulation-E12",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1986/24",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Superannuation Regulations 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-superannuation-regulations-1986",
  "path": "regulation/E12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "E12",
  "heading": "Pensions of widowers etc",
  "text": "(1) Where a woman who is a pensionable employee—\n(a) has no husband but has a potentially eligible child, or\n(b) having a husband who is permanently incapacitated by reason of ill health or infirmity of mind or body and wholly or mainly dependent on her, so elects,\nregulations E3 (amount of retirement pension and retiring allowance) and E5 to E10 (widows' and childrens' pensions) apply in relation to her as if she were a man and, where sub-paragraph (b) applies, as if her husband were a woman.\n(2) Where either of the conditions in paragraph (1)(a) and (b) has become satisfied, regulations E5 to E10 do not apply so as to confer any rights on a woman's husband by, or any potentially eligible child she acquires by virtue of or during, a subsequent marriage unless—\n(a) her husband by that marriage is permanently incapacitated by reason of ill-health or infirmity of mind or body and wholly or mainly dependent on her, and\n(b) she elects that those regulations are so to apply.\n(3) An election under paragraph (1)(b) or (2)(b) is to be made by giving notice in writing to the appropriate administering authority.\n(4) In this regulation “potentially eligible child” means a child who might become an eligible child on the woman's death.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. E12 in force at 1.3.1986, see reg. A1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
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      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1992/172",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Amendment) Regulations 1992"
    },
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      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1989/371",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Amendment) Regulations 1989"
    },
    {
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      "affecting": "uksi/1989/371",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Amendment) Regulations 1989"
    },
    {
      "type": "replaced",
      "affecting": "uksi/1989/371",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Amendment) Regulations 1989"
    },
    {
      "type": "replaced",
      "affecting": "uksi/1987/293",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 1987"
    },
    {
      "type": "modified",
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      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 1987"
    },
    {
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      "affecting": "uksi/1987/293",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 1987"
    },
    {
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      "affecting": "uksi/1988/466",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government (Superannuation and Compensation) (Amendment) Regulations 1988"
    },
    {
      "type": "applied",
      "affecting": "uksi/1989/1462",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Water) Regulations 1989"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1989/1462",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Water) Regulations 1989"
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      "type": "excluded",
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      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Water) Regulations 1989"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1990/1709",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Amendment)Regulations 1990"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1990/503",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Funds etc.) Regulations 1990"
    },
    {
      "type": "replaced",
      "affecting": "uksi/1990/503",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Funds etc.) Regulations 1990"
    },
    {
      "type": "excluded",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/1203",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Reserve Forces) Regulations 1991"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/1203",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Reserve Forces) Regulations 1991"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1989/372",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government (Superannuation and Compensation) (Amendment) Regulations 1989"
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    {
      "type": "modified",
      "affecting": "uksi/1989/1161",
      "affecting_title": "The Water Reorganisation (Pensions etc.) Regulations 1989"
    },
    {
      "type": "modified",
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      "affecting_title": "The Water Reorganisation (Pensions etc.) Regulations 1989"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1987/1579",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Reorganisation (Pensions etc.) (Greater Manchester and Merseyside) Order 1987"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1990/2480",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Investments) Regulations 1990"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1990/1285",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Finance (Miscellaneous Amendments and Repeal) Order 1990"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/24/regulation/E12",
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  },
  "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."
}