{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-superannuation-scotland-amendment-regulations-1989/regulation-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-superannuation-scotland-amendment-regulations-1989/regulation-10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/802",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-superannuation-scotland-amendment-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Guaranteed minimum pension for certain pensionable employees and their widows or widowers",
  "text": "In regulation E1 of the principal Regulations—\n(a) at the end of the heading there shall be added the words “or widowers”;\n(b) at the end of paragraph (3)(b) the word “and” shall be deleted;\n(c) in paragraph (3)(c), for the word “he”, there shall be substituted “the pensionable employee is a man and” and, for the words “and leaves”, there shall be substituted “leaving”;\n(d) after paragraph (3)(c) there shall be inserted the following:—\n“and\n(d) if the pensionable employee is a woman and dies on or after 6th April 1989 leaving a widower, unless he is entitled to a widower’s pension at a higher rate, he is entitled to a pension at a weekly rate equal to half of that part of the pensionable employee’s guaranteed minimum which is attributable to earnings factors for the tax year 1988/89 and subsequent tax years.”; and\n(e) after paragraph (3) there shall be inserted the following:—\n“(4) The guaranteed minimum pensions referred to in paragraph (3) shall, insofar as they are attributable to earnings factors in the tax years from (and including) 1988/89, be increased in accordance with the requirements of section 37A of the Pensions Act and to the extent of any orders made thereunder.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The Social Security Pensions Act 1975 (c. 60); section 37A was inserted by the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50), section 9(7)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/802/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:44:39.958070+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."
}