{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-superannuation-scotland-amendment-regulations-1989/regulation-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-superannuation-scotland-amendment-regulations-1989/regulation-15.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/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Entitlement to widow’s short-term and long-term pensions",
  "text": "In regulation E5 of the principal Regulations—\n(a) in paragraph (1)(c)(i), for the words “5 years”, there shall be substituted the words “2 years”;\n(b) in paragraph (1), for the words “paragraphs (3) to (5)”, there shall be substituted the words “paragraphs (1A) and (3) to (5)”; and\n(c) after paragraph (1) there shall be inserted the following:—\n“(1A) Where paragraph (1)(c)(i) applies and the total of the man’s reckonable service and any qualifying service when added together amounted to less than 5 years, his widow is, or as the case may be his widows are jointly, entitled to a widow’s special short-term pension under regulation E7 and not to a widow’s short-term pension under regulation E6(1).\n(1B) Where paragraph (1A) applies, a widow’s long-term pension shall not be payable until payment of the widow’s special short-term pension ceases.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/802/regulation/15",
    "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."
}