{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-2015/regulation-54",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-2015/regulation-54.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/94",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service Pension Scheme Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/54",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "54",
  "heading": "Effect of allocation",
  "text": "(1) If an election by a member (M) under regulation 51 has taken effect—\n(a) M's pension is reduced accordingly (even if the beneficiary predeceases M); and\n(b) if the beneficiary survives M, on M's death the beneficiary becomes entitled to the payment of a pension for life of such amount as is determined in accordance with regulation 52.\n(2) An allocation is disregarded if it would result in a pension being paid to a beneficiary who is neither—\n(a) M's spouse or civil partner on the date when M becomes entitled to the pension or dies; nor\n(b) at the time of M's death, a dependant of M (within the meaning of paragraph 15(2) or (3) of Schedule 28 to the 2004 Act ).\n(3) References in these Regulations to pensions under Part 5 do not include pensions under this regulation, except where context otherwise requires.\n(4) A pension under this regulation is payable to the beneficiary in addition to a pension payable in respect of M's death under Part 6.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "Paragraph 15(3) of Schedule 28 has been amended by regulations 175 and 180(c) of S.I. 2005/3229."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/94/regulation/54",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:49:26.680467+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."
}