{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-miscellaneous-amendments-scotland-regulations-2016/regulation-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-miscellaneous-amendments-scotland-regulations-2016/regulation-10.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2016/75",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Pensions (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-miscellaneous-amendments-scotland-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Police Pensions Regulations 1987",
  "text": "In regulation J1 (policeman with a guaranteed minimum)—\n(a) in paragraph (4B)—\n(i) after “leaving”, insert “a surviving spouse who is the same sex as the policeman or”; and\n(ii) before “surviving civil partner”, insert “surviving spouse or”;\n(b) after paragraph (4B), insert—\n“(4C) Where—\n(a) the regular policeman who has died was a woman by virtue of a full gender recognition certificate having been issued under the Gender Recognition Act 2004; and\n(b) at the time of her death the regular policeman was married to a woman and that marriage subsisted before the time when the certificate was issued,\nthe widow of the regular policeman is to be treated for the purposes of this regulation as if the certificate had not been issued.”; and\n(c) in paragraph (5B), after “Where a” insert “surviving spouse or”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2004 c.7."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2016/75/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:25:10.118279+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."
}