{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-1987/regulation-C7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-1987/regulation-C7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/257",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Pensions Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/C7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "C7",
  "heading": "Widow’s award where no other award payable",
  "text": "(1) This Regulation shall apply to a widow of a member of a police force to whom neither Regulation C1, C2 nor C6 applies where the husband has died while serving as a member of a police force or, in the case of an auxiliary policeman, while called up for service as such.\n(2) A widow to whom this Regulation applies shall be entitled to an award which shall comprise—\n(a) in respect of the first 13 weeks following the husband’s death, a temporary pension of such amount as secures that, in respect of each such week, the aggregate amount of the payment under this sub-paragraph and of any children’s allowances payable in respect of the husband’s death is of the like amount as his pensionable pay for a week immediately before he died, and\n(b) an ordinary gratuity of an amount equal to the husband’s average pensionable pay.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1990/805",
      "affecting_title": "The Police Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 1990"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2007/68",
      "affecting_title": "The Police (Injury Benefit) (Scotland) Regulations 2007"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "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/C7",
    "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."
}