{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-pension-amendment-regulations-2005/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-pension-amendment-regulations-2005/regulation-8.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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Equal treatment",
  "text": "Regulation K1 shall be amended as follows—\n(1) The first paragraph shall be numbered (1).\n(2) After the first paragraph there shall be inserted—\n“(2) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), where a person who was a participant dies leaving a surviving civil partner, these Regulations shall apply in relation to the surviving civil partner as they would have applied in relation to a widow or widower of the person, except in so far as they relate to pensions payable to widows in accordance with regulation K2(6).\n(3) Subject to paragraph (4), where a pension is paid to a surviving civil partner of a person who ceased to be a participant before 3rd November 2004, that pension shall be calculated by reference only to service on and after 6th April 1988.\n(4) These Regulations in so far as they relate to guaranteed minimum pensions shall apply to a surviving civil partner as they would have applied to a widower.”",
  "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/8",
    "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."
}