{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-protection-fund-compensation-regulations-2005/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-protection-fund-compensation-regulations-2005/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/670",
  "legislation_title": "The Pension Protection Fund (Compensation) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-protection-fund-compensation-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Circumstances where a widow or widower is not entitled to periodic compensation",
  "text": "A widow or widower shall not be entitled to periodic compensation under paragraph 4 (pensions in payment at assessment date), 6 (pension benefits postponed at assessment date), 9 (active members over normal pension age at assessment date), 13 (active members who have not attained normal pension age at assessment date) or 18 (deferred members who have not attained normal pension age at assessment date) of Schedule 7 to the Act where there is—\n(a) a valid nomination made by the member in accordance with either—\n(i) the admissible rules of the scheme; or\n(ii) regulation 4(2)(a),\nto pay a survivor’s pension to a relevant partner; or\n(b) no provision to a pay a survivor’s pension under the admissible rules of the scheme.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3 substituted (5.12.2005) by Occupational Pension Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/2113), regs. 1(3), 9(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 modified (24.7.2014) by The Pensions Act 2011 (Transitional, Consequential and Supplementary Provisions) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1711), regs. 1(1), 59(c) (with regs. 6, 41, 44(1), 47(1), 69(2), 72(1), 76(1)); coming into force immediately after s. 29 of 2011 c 19 - see S.I. 2014/1683, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/670/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:04:17.207561+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."
}