{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-pensions-consolidation-and-amendment-regulations-1993/schedule-12/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-pensions-consolidation-and-amendment-regulations-1993/schedule-12/paragraph-3.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": "schedule/12/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Widowers of women with service between 1st January 1972 and 1st August 1978.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of this paragraph, the widower of a woman who was a participant on or after 1st January 1972 and who has not been a participant at any time after 1st August 1978 shall be entitled to receive a pension under this paragraph if, at the time of her death, he was incapable by reason of age or bodily or mental infirmity of earning his own living and was wholly or mainly dependent on her, and at that time either—\n(a) she was entitled to receive a pension under paragraph 1 or paragraph 3 of Schedule 9 or under both those paragraphs; or\n(b) she was not so entitled, but had an aggregate period of reckonable service as a participant of not less than four years.\n(2) The annual amount of a widower’s pension under this paragraph shall be one-half of the basic or prospective pension or pensions of his late wife.\n(3) A pension under this paragraph shall, subject to the following provisions of this paragraph, continue for the life of the widower, but may be terminated by direction of the Trustees in the event of his remarriage or of his ceasing to be incapable as mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) above.\n(4) A pension terminated under sub-paragraph (3) above may be restored by direction of the Trustees if at any time the marriage upon which it was terminated comes to an end or the pensioner again becomes incapable as mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) above, or if the Trustees are satisfied that for exceptional reasons it is proper to restore the pension.\n(5) Sub-paragraphs (4), (5), (6) and (7) of paragraph 1 of this Schedule shall apply for the purposes of this paragraph with the necessary modifications.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/3253/schedule/12/paragraph/3",
    "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."
}