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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-compensation-for-premature-retirement-regulations-2002/regulation-8",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/1311",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Compensation for Premature Retirement) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-compensation-for-premature-retirement-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Compensation payable to widow, widower or dependants",
  "text": "(1) Where an entitled officer dies, payments in accordance with this regulation shall be made by the Secretary of State to or for the benefit of that officer’s widow, widower, child or other dependant or to that officer’s personal representative.\n(2) If the widow, widower, child or other dependant of an entitled officer is entitled to a benefit under the Pension Scheme Regulations, or would have been so entitled if that officer’s benefits had not been transferred to another scheme, the widow, widower, child or other dependant, as the case may be, shall be entitled to receive compensation equal to the benefits he would have received if the compensation payable to the entitled officer under regulation 4 immediately before death had been a pension which was payable under the Pension Scheme Regulations.\n(3) Any compensation payable to or for the benefit of a widow, widower, child or other dependant under this regulation shall cease to be payable on the date on which the benefit under the Pension Scheme Regulations ceases, or would have ceased, to be payable.\n(4) Where—\n(a) any benefit under the Pension Scheme Regulations is payable to any person on behalf of a child or other dependant in accordance with those Regulations; or\n(b) the entitled officer’s benefits have been transferred to another scheme and any benefits under the Pension Scheme Regulations would have been payable to any such person if those Regulations had continued to apply in relation to that officer;\nany compensation payable under this regulation to a child or other dependant shall be paid to that person on behalf of the child or other dependant in the like manner and for the like period as is provided in the Pension Scheme Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "affecting": "uksi/2005/3074",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Pension Scheme, Injury Benefits, Additional Voluntary Contributions and Compensation for Premature Retirement) (Civil Partnership) Amendment Regulations 2005"
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      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Pension Scheme, Injury Benefits, Additional Voluntary Contributions and Compensation for Premature Retirement) (Civil Partnership) Amendment Regulations 2005"
    },
    {
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      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Pension Scheme, Injury Benefits, Additional Voluntary Contributions and Compensation for Premature Retirement) (Civil Partnership) Amendment Regulations 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
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      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Pension Scheme, Injury Benefits, Additional Voluntary Contributions and Compensation for Premature Retirement) (Civil Partnership) Amendment Regulations 2005"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/1311/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:57:29.631996+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."
}