{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-2008/regulation-3.E.2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-2008/regulation-3.E.2.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/3.E.2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3.E.2",
  "heading": "Meaning of “surviving nominated partner”",
  "text": "In this Part, a person (P) is a “surviving scheme partner” if the Secretary of State is satisfied that for a continuous period of at least two years, ending with the member’s death—\n(a) the member and P were living together as if they were husband and wife or civil partners,\n(b) the member and P were not prevented from marrying or entering into a civil partnership,\n(c) the member and P were financially interdependent or P was financially dependent on the member, and\n(d) neither the member nor P were living with a third person as if they were husband and wife or as if they were civil partners.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Regulations substituted (6.11.2023) by The Health and Care Act 2022 (Further Consequential Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1071), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 3.E.2 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), 68 (with reg. 108)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/653/regulation/3.E.2",
    "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."
}