{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-superannuation-amendment-regulations-1987/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-superannuation-amendment-regulations-1987/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/2218",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Superannuation) Amendment Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-superannuation-amendment-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 15 of the principal Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 15(2)(b) of the principal Regulations (child’s allowance)—\n(a) in head (i) after “profession or vocation” there shall be inserted “in respect of which he does not receive remuneration of more than the allowable maximum”;\n(b) for head (ii) there shall be substituted the following head—\n“(ii) by reason of permanent ill-health or infirmity of mind or body was at the time of the death of that person incapable, or at a time when head (i) above applied to him became incapable, of earning his own living and has at all times subsequently remained incapable.”;\n(c) after head (ii) there shall be inserted “and in head (i) above “allowable maximum” means the sum of £1,177 a year as increased from time to time by the amount of the increase, rounded up to the nearest pound, which would be applied under Part I of the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971 (disregarding for this purpose the words “for a period of not less than two years” in section 3(3)(d) of that Act) to a pension of £1,177 a year first awarded on 6th April 1987 and as increased also by the annual amount (if any) of essential expenses necessarily incurred for the purposes of the full-time training.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1971 c. 56 Part I was amended by the Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11), section 29(1) and Schedule 6, paragraphs 84 to 86; the Pension (Increase) Act 1974 (c. 9), section 3(2) and (3); the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 (c. 60), section 65(3) and Schedule 5; the Children Act 1975 (c. 72), section 108(1)(b) and Schedule 4, Part I, and S.I. 1972/1299, article 3."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/2218/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:14:18.795864+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."
}