{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-1987/regulation-C5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-1987/regulation-C5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/257",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Pensions Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/C5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "C5",
  "heading": "Limitation on award to widow with reference to date of marriage and pension in case of post-retirement marriage",
  "text": "(1) A widow shall not be entitled to a widow’s ordinary or accrued pension under Regulation C1 or C4 unless she was married to her husband during a period before he last ceased to be a regular policeman.\n(2) A widow shall not be entitled to a widow’s special award under Regulation C2 unless she was married to her husband during a period—\n(a) before he last ceased to be a regular policeman, if he received the injury while serving as a regular policeman;\n(b) before the end of the continuous period of service during which he received the injury, in any other case.\n(3) A widow of a regular policeman who, but for paragraph (1) or (2)(a), would be entitled to an award under Regulation C1, C2 or C4 shall, instead, be entitled to a pension calculated in accordance with Part IV of Schedule C subject, however, to Regulation E8 (increase during first 13 weeks).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2007/68",
      "affecting_title": "The Police (Injury Benefit) (Scotland) Regulations 2007"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2006/740",
      "affecting_title": "The Police Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2006"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2006/285",
      "affecting_title": "The Police Pensions Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2006"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2006/285",
      "affecting_title": "The Police Pensions Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2006"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2007/68",
      "affecting_title": "The Police (Injury Benefit) (Scotland) Regulations 2007"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/257/regulation/C5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:32:23.021534+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."
}