{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-pensions-consolidation-and-amendment-regulations-1993/regulation-L2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-pensions-consolidation-and-amendment-regulations-1993/regulation-L2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/3253",
  "legislation_title": "The Parliamentary Pensions (Consolidation and Amendment) Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-pensions-consolidation-and-amendment-regulations-1993",
  "path": "regulation/L2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "L2",
  "heading": "Gratuity on death after retirement",
  "text": "(1) Where a pensioner who was a participant at any time on or after 6th April 1988 dies and no pension in respect of him is payable under regulation K2 or regulation K3, the Trustees may, if they think fit in their discretion to do so, but subject to paragraph (2) below, grant to his personal representatives a gratuity under this regulation.\n(2) The Trustees shall not grant a gratuity under this regulation in respect of a person who was a participant at any time on or after 1st April 1992 if the amount of any such gratuity would be less than the amount of any lump sum or the aggregate of any lump sums payable by virtue of regulation M4(2) or regulation M7.\n(3) For the purpose of determining the amount of a gratuity which may be granted in respect of a pensioner under this regulation, there shall be calculated—\n(a) the amount of the gratuity which the Trustees could have granted to his personal representatives under regulation L1 above if he had died at a time when he was a participant; and\n(b) the aggregate amount of the payments made to him by way of pension under Part F, Part H or Part J together with any lump sum paid to him under regulation G1;\nand the amount of the gratuity shall be the amount (if any) by which the amount calculated under sub-paragraph (a) exceeds the amount calculated under sub-paragraph (b) of this paragraph.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am (retrosp) (to 3.11.2004)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/887",
      "affecting_title": "The Parliamentary Pension (Amendment) Regulations 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2006/920",
      "affecting_title": "The Parliamentary Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2006"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/3253/regulation/L2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:43:34.947939+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."
}