{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-compensation-regulations-1974/regulation-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-compensation-regulations-1974/regulation-24.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1974/1748",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Compensation) Regulations 1974",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-compensation-regulations-1974",
  "path": "regulation/24",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Balance payable to pensionable officer's widow or personal representatives",
  "text": "(1) If a person to whom this part of these regulations applies dies before he has received in the aggregate by way of retirement compensation a sum equivalent to the aggregate of—\n(a) any superannuation contributions as defined in regulation 20(3) paid by him which have not been returned to him, and\n(b) any amount paid by him in accordance with regulation 20(1),\ntogether with compound interest thereon calculated—\n(i) at the rate of 2½ per cent per annum with yearly rests up to the date of his death as from 1st April following the year in which the amount was paid, or\n(ii) in such other manner as may be provided by the last relevant pension scheme.\n(whichever calculation gives the greater amount) and no compensation or sum is payable under regulation 22(2) or (8)(a) or 23, there shall be paid to his personal representatives the difference between the aggregate amount received by way of retirement compensation as aforesaid and the said equivalent sum.\n(2) If any annual sum which became payable to a widow under regulation 22(2) or (8)(a) has ceased to be payable on her remarriage or death, and any sum payable to a child or other dependant under either of those paragraphs has ceased to be payable, and if the aggregate amount of the payments which were made as aforesaid to her husband by way of retirement compensation and to the widow or personal representatives or trustees under regulation 23 is less than a sum equivalent to the amount which would have been payable to the personal representatives under that regulation if no sum had been payable under either of the said paragraphs (2) or (8)(a), there shall be paid to or among such persons as the Secretary of State may determine the difference between such aggregate amount and the said equivalent sum.\n(3) For the purpose of this regulation a person who has surrendered any part of his retirement compensation under regulation 16(7), or whose retirement compensation has been reduced under regulation 29(3), shall be deemed to have received during any period the amount of compensation for that period which he would have received but for such a surrender or such a reduction.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1974/1748/regulation/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:23:08.890011+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."
}