{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-superannuation-scotland-amendment-regulations-1993/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-superannuation-scotland-amendment-regulations-1993/regulation-17.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/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Amount of children’s short-term and long-term pensions",
  "text": "Regulation E9 of the principal Regulations is amended–\n(a) in paragraph (1), by inserting after the words “E6(1)”, the words “or, as the case may be, the rate at which a widower’s short-term pension would have been payable under that regulation if regulation E6(3)(a) were disregarded”;\n(b) in paragraph (2), by inserting after the words “E5(5),” the words “or a widower’s short-term pension is payable by virtue of regulation E5(1), and the child is in the care of the widow or widower,”;\n(c) in paragraph (4)–\n(i) by inserting at the beginning the words “Subject to paragraph (4A)”;\n(ii) in sub-paragraph (a), by substituting for the words “in local government employment” the words “a pensionable employee”;\n(iii) in sub-paragraph (b), by inserting after the words “preserved benefits” the words “, or was at that time in a local government employment and would have been so entitled if he had ceased to hold that employment immediately before that time,”; and\n(d) by inserting after paragraph (4) the following paragraph:–\n“(4A) Unless the retirement pension determined under paragraph (4) would be greater, the retirement pension of a deceased person shall be taken to be that to which he would have been entitled if he were entitled to reckon the lesser of–\n(a) 10 years' reckonable service;\n(b) the reckonable service which he would have been entitled to reckon if he had continued to be employed until his 65th birthday.”.",
  "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/17",
    "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."
}