{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-2006/regulation-39",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-2006/regulation-39.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/3415",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Pensions Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/39",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "39",
  "heading": "Survivors’ pensions - general provision",
  "text": "Subject to and in accordance with the provisions of these Regulations, where a regular police officer dies or has died—\n(a) while he is in receipt of an ordinary pension, an ill-health pension or a deferred pension;\n(b) after he has ceased to serve as such in circumstances where no transfer value was paid in respect of his service and he is entitled to a deferred pension, whether or not that pension has come into payment;\n(c) while he is serving as such and he fulfils the qualifying service criterion and no election under regulation 9 has effect at the time of his death; or\n(d) while he is serving as such and, having made an election under regulation 9 which has effect at the time of his death, he is entitled to a deferred pension,\na survivor such as is mentioned in regulation 40 shall be entitled to a pension calculated in the case of an adult survivor in accordance with regulation 41 and in the case of a child survivor in accordance with regulation 42.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/3415/regulation/39",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:10:40.840952+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."
}