{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2014/schedule-16/paragraph-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2014/schedule-16/paragraph-23.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2014/19",
  "legislation_title": "Pensions Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2014",
  "path": "schedule/16/paragraph/23",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 3 (late claims for bereavement benefit where death is difficult to establish) is amended as follows.\n(2) Subsection (3) is repealed.\n(3) After subsection (4) insert—\n“(5) In subsection (2) “bereavement benefit” means—\n(a) bereavement support payment, or\n(b) widowed parent's allowance.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 16 para. 23 in force at 6.4.2017 by S.I. 2017/297, art. 3(2) (with arts. 4, 5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/19/schedule/16/paragraph/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:07:37.828516+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."
}