{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-schemes-act-1993/section-24D",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-schemes-act-1993/section-24D.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1993/48",
  "legislation_title": "Pension Schemes Act 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-schemes-act-1993",
  "path": "section/24D",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "24D",
  "heading": "Survivors' benefits",
  "text": "(1) This section specifies the benefits mentioned in Condition 4 of section 24B.\n(2) The first benefit is that if the earner is a man married to a woman or a woman married to a woman in a relevant gender change case, and the earner dies (whether before or after attaining normal pension age) leaving a widow, she is entitled to a pension of at least half the value of the pension to which the earner would have been entitled by reference to employment during the period—\n(a) beginning with 6th April 1978, and\n(b) ending with 5th April 1997.\n(3) The second benefit is that if the earner is a married woman (other than in a relevant gender change case), a man married to a man, or a civil partner, and the earner dies (whether before or after attaining normal pension age) leaving a widower , widow or surviving civil partner, he or she is entitled to a pension of at least half the value of the pension to which the earner would have been entitled by reference to employment during the period—\n(a) beginning with 6th April 1988, and\n(b) ending with 5th April 1997.\n(4) In relation to an earner who is a woman, a reference in this section to a relevant gender change case is a reference to a case where—\n(a) the earner is a woman by virtue of a full gender recognition certificate having been issued under the Gender Recognition Act 2004, and\n(b) the marriage of the earner and her widow (that ends with the earner's death) subsisted before the time when the certificate was issued.\n(5) This section is subject to regulations under section 38A.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 24A-24H inserted (1.3.2009 for specified purposes, 6.4.2009 in so far as not already in force) by Pensions Act 2007 (c. 22), ss. 14(3), 30(2)(a); S.I. 2009/406, art. 2(a)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 24D omitted (28.4.2022 for specified purposes) by virtue of Pension Schemes (Conversion of Guaranteed Minimum Pensions) Act 2022 (c. 33), ss. 1(4), 3(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 24D(2) inserted (E.W.) (13.3.2014 for specified purposes, 10.12.2014 in so far as not already in force) by Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (c. 30), s. 21(3), Sch. 4 para. 21(2); S.I. 2014/93, art. 3(j)(vi); S.I. 2014/3169, art. 2; inserted (S.) (16.12.2014) by The Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014 and Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/3229), art. 1(2), Sch. 5 para. 11(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 24D(3) inserted (E.W.) (13.3.2014 for specified purposes, 10.12.2014 in so far as not already in force) by Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (c. 30), s. 21(3), Sch. 4 para. 21(3)(a); S.I. 2014/93, art. 3(j)(vi); S.I. 2014/3169, art. 2; inserted (S.) (16.12.2014) by The Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014 and Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/3229), art. 1(2), Sch. 5 para. 11(4)(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in s. 24D(3) inserted (E.W.) (13.3.2014 for specified purposes, 10.12.2014 in so far as not already in force) by Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (c. 30), s. 21(3), Sch. 4 para. 21(3)(b); S.I. 2014/93, art. 3(j)(vi); S.I. 2014/3169, art. 2; inserted (S.) (16.12.2014) by The Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014 and Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/3229), art. 1(2), Sch. 5 para. 11(4)(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 24D(4)(5) inserted (E.W.) (13.3.2014 for specified purposes, 10.12.2014 in so far as not already in force) by Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (c. 30), s. 21(3), Sch. 4 para. 21(4); S.I. 2014/93, art. 3(j)(vi); S.I. 2014/3169, art. 2 S. 24D(4) inserted (S.) (16.12.2014) by The Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014 and Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/3229), art. 1(2), Sch. 5 para. 11(4)(c) S. 24D(5) extended (S.) (16.11.2015) by Pension Schemes Act 2015 (c. 8), ss. 81, 89(1)(d); S.I. 2015/1851, reg. 2(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/48/section/24D",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:34:33.061575+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."
}