{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pension-schemes-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2019/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pension-schemes-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2019/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2019/54",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Pension Schemes (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pension-schemes-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2019",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Surviving cohabiting partners",
  "text": "In regulation 43 (lump sum death grant)—\n(1) in paragraph (4)(c) at the beginning insert ″subject to paragraph (4A),″;and\n(2) after paragraph (4) insert —\n“(4A) Unless paragraph (4B) applies, the Board must pay a grant to a person of the description in paragraph (4)(b) if a grant was paid to a different person under paragraph (4)(c) or (d) before this paragraph came into operation.\n(4B) This paragraph applies where the Board are of the opinion that the person of the description in paragraph (4)(b) has benefitted from all of the grant paid under paragraph (4)(c) or (d).\n(4C) The amount of a grant payable under paragraph (4A) is an amount calculated under paragraph (3), but the Board may pay such a lower amount as they consider appropriate in all the circumstances if they are of the opinion that the person has benefitted from some of the grant paid under paragraph (4)(c) or (d).”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2019/54/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:47:20.182374+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."
}