{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-injuries-civilians-amendment-scheme-1993/section-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-injuries-civilians-amendment-scheme-1993/section-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/480",
  "legislation_title": "The Personal Injuries (Civilians) Amendment Scheme 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-injuries-civilians-amendment-scheme-1993",
  "path": "section/9",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Amendment of article 71 of the principal Scheme",
  "text": "In article 71 of the principal Scheme (marriage of female persons)—\n(a) for paragraph (3) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—\n“(3) Subject to paragraph (4) below, where a pension awarded to a person under articles 27, 30 or 49 of this Scheme ceases under paragraph (1) above, the Secretary of State may award that person a gratuity equal to one year’s pension.”;\n(b) for paragraph (4) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—\n“(4) Where an award of pension ceases under paragraph (1) above as a consequence of a person living with a man as his wife prior to 12th April 1993, and the death of that man occurs after 11th April 1993, the Secretary of State may award that person a gratuity equal to one year’s pension.”;\n(c) paragraph (5) shall be omitted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/480/section/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:03:39.469565+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."
}