{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/regulation-133",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/regulation-133.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2015/113",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Pensions Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-northern-ireland-2015",
  "path": "regulation/133",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "133",
  "heading": "Surviving adults",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“surviving adult”, in relation to a deceased member of this scheme, means the member's surviving spouse, surviving civil partner or surviving adult partner;\n“surviving civil partner”, in relation to a deceased member of this scheme, means a person who was in a civil partnership with the member as at the date of the member's death; and\n“surviving spouse”, in relation to a deceased member of this scheme, means a person who was married to the member as at the date of the member's death.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "See section 1 of the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33) for the meaning of “civil partnership”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/113/regulation/133",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:03:04.118896+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."
}