{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-2015/regulation-142",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-2015/regulation-142.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/445",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Pensions Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/142",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "142",
  "heading": "Reduction in pensions in cases of wide age disparity",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies if, on the death of a member of this scheme, a surviving adult's pension becomes payable to a surviving adult who is more than 12 years younger than the member.\n(2) The annual rate of the surviving adult's pension is reduced by the lower of—\n(a) 50% of the amount of the annual rate of the pension calculated under regulation 139, 140 or 141; and\n(b) 2.5 x (N –12)% of the amount of the annual rate of the pension so calculated,\nwhere N is the number of whole years by which the surviving adult is younger than the member.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/445/regulation/142",
    "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."
}