{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-amendment-regulations-2008/regulation-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-amendment-regulations-2008/regulation-22.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/654",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-amendment-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/22",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation G4",
  "text": "For paragraph (2) of regulation G4 (member dies with preserved pension) substitute—\n“(2) If the member leaves pensionable employment before 1st April 2008 and dies within 12 months after leaving, the widow’s pension will be equal to one-half of the pension that would have been payable to the member under the scheme if the member had retired through ill health with a pension under regulation E2 on the day the member left pensionable employment.\n(2A) If the member leaves pensionable employment on or after 1st April 2008 and dies within 12 months after leaving, the widow’s pension will be equal to one-half of the pension that would have been payable to the member under the scheme if the member had retired through ill health with a tier 2 pension under regulation E2A on the day the member left pensionable employment.”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 22 in force at 1.4.2008, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/654/regulation/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:34:19.737134+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."
}