{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-1987/regulation-C9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-1987/regulation-C9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/257",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Pensions Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/C9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "C9",
  "heading": "Termination of widow’s award on remarriage",
  "text": "(1) Where a widow entitled to a pension under this Part remarries or has remarried, she shall not be entitled to receive any payment on account of the pension in respect of any period after her remarriage:\nProvided that if at any time after her remarriage she has again become a widow or that marriage has been dissolved, the police authority may, in their discretion, bring the pension into payment.\n(2) Where a widow entitled to a gratuity under this Part remarries or has remarried, so much of the gratuity as has not been paid before her remarriage shall not be payable thereafter:\nProvided that if at any time after her remarriage she has again become a widow or that marriage has been dissolved, the police authority may, in their discretion, pay to her the sums which they were actually or contingently liable to pay to her in respect of the gratuity immediately before her remarriage.\n(3) Where, after her husband’s death, a woman and a man to whom she is not married are living together as husband and wife, this Regulation shall apply as if for the period for which they so live together she were married to him and any reference therein to her remarriage, her again becoming a widow or the marriage being dissolved shall be construed accordingly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2015/2057",
      "affecting_title": "The Police Pensions and Police (Injury Benefit) (Amendment) Regulations 2015"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1992/2349",
      "affecting_title": "The Police (Pensions and Injury Benefit) (Amendment) Regulations 1992"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted for reg. C9",
      "affecting": "uksi/2006/740",
      "affecting_title": "The Police Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2006"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted for reg. C9",
      "affecting": "ssi/2006/285",
      "affecting_title": "The Police Pensions Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2006"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2016/75",
      "affecting_title": "The Police Pensions (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2016"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/257/regulation/C9",
    "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."
}