{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-miscellaneous-offices-requisite-benefits-amendment-order-1989/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-miscellaneous-offices-requisite-benefits-amendment-order-1989/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/829",
  "legislation_title": "The Pensions (Miscellaneous Offices) (Requisite Benefits) (Amendment) Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-miscellaneous-offices-requisite-benefits-amendment-order-1989",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Widower’s guaranteed minimum pension",
  "text": "The following paragraph shall be inserted after article 9 of the principal Order:-\n“Widower’s guaranteed minimum pension\n9A (1) As from the death on or after 6th April 1989 (whether before or after attaining pensionable age) of a female office holder, her widower shall, subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), be entitled to receive, in relation to the pension provided for him by a scheme, a guaranteed minimum pension the weekly rate of which shall be not less than his guaranteed minimum as ascertained in accordance with section 36(3) of the Act of 1975.\n(2) Paragraph (1) above shall apply in the circumstances prescribed under section 36(7A) of the Act of 1975 and for the period prescribed under that sub-section.\n(3) Paragraph (1) above shall not apply:\n(a) if at the date of her death the office holder’s accrued rights to a guaranteed minimum pension have been extinguished under section 43(7) of the Act of 1975; or\n(b) if the widower’s accrued rights are extinguished under that sub-section.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 36(3) was substituted by the Social Security Act 1986, (c.50), section 9(3)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Sub-section (7A) was inserted into section 36 by the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50), section 9(3)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/829/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:44:28.060540+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."
}