{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-2015/regulation-135",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-2015/regulation-135.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/445",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Pensions Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/135",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "135",
  "heading": "Meaning of “surviving adult partner”",
  "text": "(1) A person (P) is a surviving adult partner of a deceased member of this scheme if—\n(a) the following conditions are met—\n(i) P and the member were cohabiting as partners in an exclusive, committed long-term relationship;\n(ii) either P was financially dependent on the member or P and the member were financially interdependent;\n(iii) the member was able to marry or form a civil partnership with P; and\n(iv) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) P has satisfied the scheme manager that—\n(i) the circumstances in sub-paragraphs (i) to (iii) of paragraph (a) continued to subsist at the time of the member's death; and\n(ii) the period of cohabitation had been of at least 2 years' duration at the time of the member's death.\n(2) The scheme manager may in its discretion accept a shorter period of cohabitation if satisfied in the particular circumstances of the case that the member and P would have cohabited as partners for at least 2 years had the member not died.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 135(1)(a) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(d) of the amending S.I.) by The Police and Firefighters Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/997), regs. 1(2)(d), 34(1)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 135(1)(a)(iv) omitted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(d) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Police and Firefighters Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/997), regs. 1(2)(d), 34(1)(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 135(1)(b) omitted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(d) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Police and Firefighters Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/997), regs. 1(2)(d), 34(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 135(3)(4) omitted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(d) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Police and Firefighters Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/997), regs. 1(2)(d), 34(1)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/445/regulation/135",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:45:30.636565+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."
}