{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-2008/regulation-2.E.13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-2008/regulation-2.E.13.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/653",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service Pension Scheme Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/2.E.13",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2.E.13",
  "heading": "Amount of children’s pension under regulation 2.E.8: recent leavers",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies for determining the annual amount of the pension payable under regulation 2.E.8(1) if at the date of death the deceased was a recent leaver (within the meaning of regulation 2.E.6(3)).\n(2) That amount is the appropriate fraction of the basic death pension.\n(3) In this regulation—\n(a) “the basic death pension” means 75% of the pension to which the deceased would have been entitled if the deceased had become entitled to—\n(i) a pension under regulation 2.D.8(5) on the date of death, or\n(ii) if greater, the amount that the member’s pension would have been if it had been based on 10 years’ pensionable service (disregarding any additional pension), and\n(b) “the appropriate fraction” means—\n(i) if there is a surviving parent of the dependant child or children or a surviving spouse or civil partner of a parent of the dependant child or children and a surviving adult’s pension is payable—\n(aa) one-quarter if there is only one dependant child, and\n(bb) one-half if there are two or more dependant children,\n(ii) otherwise—\n(aa) one-third if there is only one dependant child, and\n(bb) two-thirds if there are two or more dependant children.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 2.E.13(3)(a) substituted (1.4.2009 with effect from 1.4.2008) by The National Health Service Pension Scheme and Injury Benefits (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/381), regs. 1(2)(4), 43 (with reg. 89)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/653/regulation/2.E.13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:34:22.381913+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."
}