{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-superannuation-scotland-regulations-1987/regulation-K3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-superannuation-scotland-regulations-1987/regulation-K3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1850",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Scotland) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-superannuation-scotland-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/K3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "K3",
  "heading": "Payment of benefit",
  "text": "(1) An employing authority may pay to any person to whom this Part applies a benefit of an amount not exceeding that determined in accordance with regulation K4.\n(2) Any benefit payable under paragraph (1) may take the form of—\n(a) a lump sum; or\n(b) an annuity, the capital value of which does not exceed the amount payable under paragraph (1).\n(3) Where an employing authority have granted a benefit to an employee under paragraph (1) by way of an annuity, and the employee dies before receiving an aggregate amount equal to the capital value of the annuity, the authority may grant a benefit to the widow or any other dependant of the employee and for that purpose regulation K2 shall have effect as if the employee had died while in the employment of the authority but as if for the amount specified in paragraph (2) there were substituted the difference between the capital value of the annuity and the aggregate amount of the payments made to the employee before his death.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "replaced (by reg.E9(3)(a)-(d))",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/3048",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Superannuation (Scotland) Amendment (No.4) Regulations 1997"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1850/regulation/K3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:18:54.659485+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."
}