{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-2008/regulation-3.E.20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-2008/regulation-3.E.20.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.20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3.E.20",
  "heading": "Amount of lump sum: pension credit members",
  "text": "(1) The lump sum payable on the death of a pension credit member who dies before any benefits derived from the member’s pension credit have become payable is an amount equal to the amount of the annual pension to which the member would have become entitled under regulation 3.D.2 (pension credit member) if the member had reached the age of 65 on the date of death, multiplied by 2.25.\n(2) The lump sum payable on the death of a pension credit member who dies after a pension under that regulation has become payable is equal to the lower of—\n(a) the annual amount of the pension that would have been payable to the member during so much of the period of 5 years beginning with the date on which the pension became payable as falls after the date of death, and\n(b) 2AUE−CLS,\nwhere—\nAUE is the amount as at the valuation day of the annual average of the uprated earnings of the debit member from whose rights the pension credit member’s pension credit is derived, and\nCLS is the amount of the lump sum (if any) paid to the pension credit member as a result of the member exercising the option under regulation 3.D.10 (general option to exchange part of pension for lump sum) on becoming entitled to the pension under regulation 3.D.2.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) In this regulation—\n“valuation day” means the day referred to in section 29(7) of the 1999 Act, ...\n...",
  "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.20(3) omitted (with effect from 1.4.2008) by virtue of The National Health Service Pension Schemes and Injury Benefits (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/631), regs. 1(2)(7), 22(2) (with reg. 34)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3.E.20(4) omitted (with effect from 1.4.2008) by virtue of The National Health Service Pension Schemes and Injury Benefits (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/631), regs. 1(2)(7), 22(3) (with reg. 34)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/653/regulation/3.E.20",
    "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."
}