{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-protection-fund-pension-compensation-sharing-and-attachment-on-divorce-etc-regulations-2011/regulation-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-protection-fund-pension-compensation-sharing-and-attachment-on-divorce-etc-regulations-2011/regulation-22.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2011/731",
  "legislation_title": "The Pension Protection Fund (Pension Compensation Sharing and Attachment on Divorce etc) Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-protection-fund-pension-compensation-sharing-and-attachment-on-divorce-etc-regulations-2011",
  "path": "regulation/22",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Compensation payable in the case of relevant partners and surviving dependants",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies where the transferee—\n(a) was before death entitled to present or future payment of periodic compensation calculated in accordance with paragraph 4 or 6 of Schedule 5 to the Act; or\n(b) would have become so entitled had they not died before the Board discharged liability for a pension compensation credit.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (4), a relevant partner is entitled to periodic compensation in the circumstances prescribed in paragraph (3).\n(3) The circumstances are where there is provision to pay a survivor's pension to a relevant partner under the admissible rules of the scheme (whether discretionary or otherwise); and—\n(a) the transferee—\n(i) has supplied the Board with a valid nomination in favour of the relevant partner; and\n(ii) the relevant partner has demonstrated to the satisfaction of the Board that they were living with the transferee at the date of the transferee's death; or\n(b) where the transferee has not supplied the Board with a valid nomination in accordance with sub-paragraph (a)(i), the relevant partner supplies evidence to the satisfaction of the Board that, at the date of the transferee's death, they were—\n(i) financially dependent, or interdependent, on the transferee; and\n(ii) living with the transferee.\n(4) No compensation may be paid under paragraph (2) where the transferee had a civil partner or a spouse at the date of the transferee's death and there is no valid nomination in favour of the relevant partner.\n(5) A surviving dependant is entitled to periodic compensation in the circumstances prescribed in paragraph (6).\n(6) In the case of a surviving dependant, the circumstances are where there is supplied to the Board—\n(a) in the case of a natural child of the transferee, a birth certificate or other evidence demonstrating to the satisfaction of the Board that they are the natural child of the transferee;\n(b) in the case of an adopted child of the transferee, the adoption certificate demonstrating that they are the adopted child of the transferee; or\n(c) in the case of any other surviving dependant, evidence demonstrating to the satisfaction of the Board that they are a dependant of the transferee.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/731/regulation/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:13:10.532898+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."
}