{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-preservation-of-benefit-regulations-1991/regulation-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-preservation-of-benefit-regulations-1991/regulation-19.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/167",
  "legislation_title": "The Occupational Pension Schemes (Preservation of Benefit) Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-pension-schemes-preservation-of-benefit-regulations-1991",
  "path": "regulation/19",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Widows, widowers, surviving civil partners and dependants",
  "text": "This regulation applies to schemes that provide long service benefit payable to a person other than the member only if the person is married to, in a civil partnership with, or dependent on, the member when the member reaches normal pension age. These schemes are required to provide short service benefit payable to the person concerned only if the person was also married to, or (as the case may be) in a civil partnership with, or dependent on, the member when the member’s pensionable service terminated.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 19 inserted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership (Pensions, Social Security and Child Support) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2877), art. 1, Sch. 2 para. 2(b) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 19 inserted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership (Pensions, Social Security and Child Support) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2877), art. 1, Sch. 2 para. 2(c) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in heading toreg. 19 inserted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership (Pensions, Social Security and Child Support) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2877), art. 1, Sch. 2 para. 2(a) (with art. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/167/regulation/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:52:20.523958+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."
}