{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-lump-sum-payments-to-widows-regulations-1987/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-lump-sum-payments-to-widows-regulations-1987/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1462",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Pensions (Lump Sum Payments to Widows) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-lump-sum-payments-to-widows-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) This regulation shall apply to a widow who is in receipt of a pension increased under any of the following provisions of the old cases Regulations, namely under—\n(a) regulation 30 (discretionary increase in widow’s ordinary pension);\n(b) regulation 33 (discretionary increase in widow’s special pension); or\n(c) regulation 35 (discretionary increase in widow’s award under former Acts),\nwhere the increase is payable in respect of a period which includes a day in the week beginning with 7th December 1987.\n(2) Except where a widow to whom this regulation applies is entitled to a payment by virtue of the Pensioners' Lump Sum Payments Order 1987, the police authority shall pay her a gratuity of £10.\n(3) For the purposes of regulation 49 of the old cases Regulations (prevention of duplication), a gratuity under this regulation shall be ignored.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1462/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:21:18.550929+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."
}