{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-superannuation-scotland-amendment-regulations-1996/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-superannuation-scotland-amendment-regulations-1996/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/414",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-superannuation-scotland-amendment-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Amount of widow’s short-term and long-term pensions",
  "text": "Regulation E6 shall be amended—\n(a) in paragraph (1) by inserting—\n(i) in sub-paragraph (a) after the word “applies” the words “, and the provisions of sub-paragraph (d) of this paragraph do not apply,”; and\n(ii) after sub-paragraph (c) the following sub-paragraph:—\n“or\n(d) where all or part of her husband’s retirement pension was commuted for a lump sum in accordance with regulation E11A, a rate equal to the annual rate of the retirement pension to which her husband would have been entitled immediately before the date of his death but for such commutation.”; and\n(b) in paragraph (2) by inserting—\n(i) in sub-paragraph (a) after the word “applies” the words “, and the provisions of sub-paragraph (g) of this paragraph do not apply”; and\n(ii) after sub-paragraph (f) the following sub-paragraph:—\n“and\n(g) where all or part of her husband’s retirement pension was commuted for a lump sum in accordance with regulation E11A, half the annual rate of the retirement pension to which her husband would have been entitled immediately before the date of his death but for such commutation.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/414/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:51:47.092877+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."
}