{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-amendment-increased-pension-entitlement-scotland-regulations-2009/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-amendment-increased-pension-entitlement-scotland-regulations-2009/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2009/185",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Pensions Amendment (Increased Pension Entitlement) (Scotland) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-amendment-increased-pension-entitlement-scotland-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Police Pensions Regulations 1987",
  "text": "After regulation N3 (payments), insert–\n“Authorisation of payment of GMP-related payments\nN4 (1) The relevant police authority may pay GMP-related payments to–\n(a) a person to whom this Part applies; and\n(b) a deceased entitled member.\n(2) Where a relevant police authority has paid GMP-related payments before 6th April 2009, the authority may not recover those payments after 6th April 2009.\n(3) In this regulation, a deceased entitled member is a person who–\n(a) at the date of his death was entitled to a pension under the scheme;\n(b) at that date was entitled to a guaranteed minimum pension; and\n(c) has in any tax year since entitlement to the guaranteed minimum pension commenced received a GMP-related payment.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2009/185/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:01:30.534958+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."
}