{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-2006/regulation-45",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-2006/regulation-45.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/3415",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Pensions Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/45",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "45",
  "heading": "Death gratuity - estate",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies in the case of a regular police officer—\n(a) who dies while in receipt of a pension or while entitled to a deferred pension, whether or not that pension has come into payment, or\n(b) who dies while serving as such.\n(2) If, in the case of such a police officer, the aggregate of—\n(a) any payments made or due to him on account of his pension or by way of a lump sum under regulation 27 or 29 together with any increase under the Pensions (Increase) Acts;\n(b) the capitalised value (calculated in accordance with tables prepared from time to time by the Scheme actuary) of any pension or allowance granted in respect of his death;\n(c) the actuarial value of any pension credit under Part 6 of these Regulations; and\n(d) any gratuity granted in respect of his death under regulation 44,\nis less than his aggregate pension contributions in respect of his relevant period of service (calculated in accordance with regulation 26), the police authority shall pay a gratuity equal to the difference to his legal personal representative.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1971 c.56; 1974 c.9."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/3415/regulation/45",
    "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."
}