{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-1995/regulation-G9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-1995/regulation-G9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/300",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service Pension Scheme Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/G9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "G9",
  "heading": "Increased widower’s pension",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (6), if a female member elected before 1st July 1989 to buy an increased widower’s pension, the widower’s pension described in regulation G7 will be based on pensionable service after 5th April 1988 plus the period of pensionable service before that date that the member elected to buy for this purpose under regulation 18B of the previous regulations (purchase of increased widower’s pension).\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), any retirement lump sum payable to a member under regulation E6 (lump sum on retirement), in respect of any period of pensionable service that the member elected to buy as described in paragraph (1), will be reduced by 2 times the yearly rate of the part of the member’s pension that is based on pensionable service before 25th March 1972 and by the yearly rate of the part of the member’s pension that is based on pensionable service after 24th March 1972 plus, in each case, the relevant daily proportion of that rate for each additional day.\n(3) Where regulation E2(10) , regulation E2A(10) or regulation L1(8) applies to a female member, any reference in those regulations to a lump sum payable on retirement shall mean, in relation to a member to whom paragraph (2) of this regulation refers, a lump sum which is not reduced as described in that paragraph.\n(4) Where the member elected to buy an unreduced retiring allowance under paragraph 3 of Schedule 7A to the previous regulations , regulations Q2 (right to buy an unreduced retirement lump sum) and Q7 (part payment for additional service or unreduced retirement lump sum) will apply to such election as if it had been made under regulation Q2.\n(5) If a female member who has made an election under this regulation—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) dies without leaving a widower but leaving a surviving civil partner or, as the case may be, a surviving scheme partner,\nthe widower’s pension described in paragraph (1) shall be paid to that surviving partner.\n(6) This regulation does not apply to a female member who dies on or after 5th December 2005 and leaves a widower or a surviving civil partner.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. G9(1) substituted (1.7.2021 with effect from 5.12.2005) by The National Health Service Pension Schemes and Injury Benefits (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/631), regs. 1(2)(6), 8(2) (with reg. 34)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. G9(3) inserted (1.4.2008) by The National Health Service Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/654), regs. 1(2), 25(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. G9(5) inserted (1.4.2008) by The National Health Service Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/654), regs. 1(2), 25(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. G9(5)(a) omitted (13.3.2014) by virtue of The National Health Service Pension Scheme, Additional Voluntary Contributions, Compensation for Premature Retirement and Injury Benefits (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/78), regs. 1(2), 5(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. G9(5)(b) substituted (with effect from 1.4.2008) by The National Health Service Pension Schemes, Additional Voluntary Contributions and Injury Benefits (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/418), regs. 1(2)(9), 13"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Reg. G9(6) inserted (1.7.2021 with effect from 5.12.2005) by The National Health Service Pension Schemes and Injury Benefits (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/631), regs. 1(2)(6), 8(3) (with reg. 34)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "Regulation 18B was inserted into the previous regulations by regulation 11(2) of S.I. 1989/804."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "Schedule 7A was inserted into the previous regulations by regulation 11(3) of S.I. 1989/804."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/300/regulation/G9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:17:02.304130+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."
}