{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-pension-amendment-regulations-2005/regulation-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-pension-amendment-regulations-2005/regulation-10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/887",
  "legislation_title": "The Parliamentary Pension (Amendment) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-pension-amendment-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Pensions for surviving adult dependants",
  "text": "After regulation K2 of the Principal Regulations a new regulation shall be inserted—\n“Pensions for surviving adult dependants\nK2A (1) For the purposes of these Regulations, surviving adult dependant means, in relation to a person who has died, a person who—\n(a) made and signed with the deceased person a declaration in a form prescribed by the Trustees and the declaration was not subsequently cancelled by either partner by a signed revocation in such form as the Trustees prescribed or otherwise accepted ; and\n(b) satisfies the Trustees that at the time of the deceased person’s death—\n(i) the person and the deceased person were cohabiting as partners in an enduring long-term relationship and neither the person nor the deceased person was cohabiting with a third person as partners in an enduring long-term relationship;\n(ii) the person and the deceased person were not prevented from marrying (or would not have been so prevented apart from being of the same sex) or forming a civil partnership; and\n(iii) either the person was financially dependent on the deceased person or they were financially interdependent.\n(2) A surviving adult dependant of a person who—\n(a) was a participant at any time on or after 3rd November 2004;\n(b) was at the person’s death either—\n(i) a participant; or\n(ii) a pensioner; or\n(iii) a deferred pensioner; and\n(c) did not leave a widow or widower or surviving civil partner\nshall be entitled to receive a pension for life under this regulation.\n(3) The annual amount of a pension payable under this regulation to a surviving adult dependant shall be five-eighths of the basic or prospective pension or pensions of the deceased person.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/887/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:01:41.932913+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."
}