{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-superannuation-scotland-amendment-regulations-1989/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-superannuation-scotland-amendment-regulations-1989/regulation-16.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/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Entitlement to children’s short-term and long-term pensions",
  "text": "In regulation E8 of the principal Regulations—\n(a) in paragraph (1)(c), for the words “5 years”, there shall be substituted the words “2 years”;\n(b) in paragraph (3), after the words “children’s short-term pension”, there shall be inserted the words “or long-term pension” and, after the words “widow’s short-term pension”, there shall be inserted the words “or special short-term pension”; and\n(c) after paragraph (5) there shall be inserted the following paragraph:—\n“(6) A children’s short-term pension or long-term pension shall not be payable in respect of the death of more than one parent but shall be payable in respect of the death of whichever parent would result in the larger payment.”.",
  "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/16",
    "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."
}