{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-superannuation-amendment-regulations-1989/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-superannuation-amendment-regulations-1989/regulation-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/804",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Superannuation) Amendment Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-superannuation-amendment-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Insertion of regulation 14A of the principal Regulations",
  "text": "After regulation 14 of the principal Regulations there is inserted–\n“Polygamous marriages\n14A Where on the death of a person referred to in regulation 13(1), 14(1) or 16(1) it appears to the Secretary of State that there is no widow who would be entitled to receive the death gratuity, annual widow’s pension or limited pension, as the case may be, but the deceased was at the date of his death married to a wife under a law which permits polygamy, the wife of that polygamous marriage shall be treated as if she were such a widow and where there are two or more such wives each shall be entitled to an equal share of the death gratuity, annual widow’s pension or limited pension provided that such share in relation to any such pension shall not be increased by reason of the death of any other wife so entitled.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/804/regulation/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:44:39.060297+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."
}