{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-superannuation-scotland-amendment-regulations-1993/regulation-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-superannuation-scotland-amendment-regulations-1993/regulation-13.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/1593",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-superannuation-scotland-amendment-regulations-1993",
  "path": "regulation/13",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Entitlement to widow’s short-term and long-term pensions",
  "text": "Regulation E5 of the principal Regulations is amended–\n(a) in paragraph (1)(c)(ii), by inserting after the word “E2(1)(d),” the word “or,”;\n(b) by inserting after paragraph 1(c)(ii) the following sub-paragraph:–\n“(iii) neither (i) nor (ii) above applies, but a transfer value from the trustees or managers of a personal pension scheme or a self-employed pension arrangement has been and remains credited to the appropriate superannuation fund in relation to him,”\n(c) in the latter part of paragraph (1), by substituting for the word “(5)” the word “(7)” and inserting after the word “death” the words “or, if the death occurs after 5th April 1988 and the widow has one or more eligible children in her care, for six months after his death”;\n(d) by substituting for paragraph (2) the following paragraph:–\n“(2) If at the time of his death a man was not a pensionable employee and–\n(a) was entitled to preserved benefits, or\n(b) was in a local government employment and would have been so entitled if he had ceased to hold that employment immediately before that time,\nand leaves a widow, or widows, she is or, as the case may be, they are jointly, entitled, subject to paragraphs (3) to (7), to a widow’s long-term pension.”;\n(e) by substituting for paragraph (3) the following paragraph:–\n“(3) A widow is not entitled to any pension by virtue of paragraph (1) or (2) if–\n(a) her husband died before 6th April 1988, and\n(b) when her husband died or became entitled to a retirement pension they were judicially separated.”;\n(f) in paragraph (6), by deleting the word “A” and inserting before the word “pension” the following words:–\n“Except where paragraph (7) applies, a”; and\n(g) by inserting after paragraph (6) the following paragraphs:–\n“(7) Where a widower and a widow who are each entitled to a pension under this regulation marry each other or cohabit with each other outside marriage, only such one of them as the widower and widow may determine shall be entitled to his or her pension and the other shall cease to be entitled to his or her pension until the dissolution of the marriage, the ending of the cohabitation, or the death of the widower or widow.\n(8) In paragraphs (1) and (2), for the purpose of entitlement to a widower’s pension–\n“retirement pension” means a retirement pension of which at least part is attributable to a period of reckonable service after 5th April 1988;\n“local government employment” means local government employment of which at least part was employment after 5th April 1988; and\n“preserved benefits” means preserved benefits of which at least part are attributable to a period of reckonable service after 5th April 1988.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/1593/regulation/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:54:50.492103+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."
}