{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-2008/regulation-2.E.23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-2008/regulation-2.E.23.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.23",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2.E.23",
  "heading": "Death during period of absence",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies if a person dies during a period when the person—\n(a) is absent from work because of illness or injury,\n(b) is on ordinary maternity leave,\n(c) is on ordinary adoption leave,\n(d) is on paternity leave or parental leave,\nis on paternity leave, parental leave , shared parental leave or parental bereavement leave,\nand the earnings used to calculate the person’s pensionable pay have ceased to be paid before the person’s death.\n(2) Any benefits payable under this Chapter must be calculated as if the person had died in pensionable service on the day before those earnings ceased.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 2.E.23(1)(d) substituted (31.12.2014 for specified purposes) by The National Health Service Pension Scheme, Injury Benefits and Additional Voluntary Contributions (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/245), regs. 1(7), 29 (with reg. 105)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2.E.23(1)(d) substituted (6.4.2020) by The Parental Bereavement Leave and Pay (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/354), regs. 1, 18(6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/653/regulation/2.E.23",
    "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."
}