{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-2008/regulation-3.E.24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-2008/regulation-3.E.24.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.24",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3.E.24",
  "heading": "Polygamous marriages",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies if—\n(a) a member dies without leaving a surviving adult dependant, and\n(b) at the date of death the member was married to one or more persons under a law which permits polygamy.\n(2) If, had the member left a surviving adult dependant, any benefit would have been payable to the surviving adult dependant as such, that benefit is payable—\n(a) if there is one such person, to that person, or\n(b) if there are two or more such persons, to those persons in equal shares.\n(3) Such a person’s share of a pension will not be increased on the death of any of such persons.",
  "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"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/653/regulation/3.E.24",
    "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."
}