{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-service-civil-servants-and-others-pensions-regulations-2014/regulation-121",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-service-civil-servants-and-others-pensions-regulations-2014/regulation-121.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/1964",
  "legislation_title": "The Public Service (Civil Servants and Others) Pensions Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-service-civil-servants-and-others-pensions-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/121",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "121",
  "heading": "Payment of lump sum death benefit",
  "text": "(1) A lump sum death benefit may be paid where—\n(a) an active, deferred or pensioner member of this scheme dies; or\n(b) a pension credit member of this scheme dies before any benefits attributable (directly or indirectly) to a pension credit become payable.\n(2) But a lump sum death benefit is not payable where—\n(a) a pensioner member who is not also an active member dies more than 5 years after the member’s full retirement pension or ill-health pension becomes payable; or\n(b) a member who dies had reached the age of 75.\n(3) The lump sum death benefit must be paid within the period of 2 years beginning with the earlier of—\n(a) the day on which the scheme manager first knew of the member’s death; and\n(b) the day on which the scheme manager could reasonably be expected to have known of the member’s death.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 121(1) substituted (1.4.2022) by The Public Service (Civil Servants and Others) Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/330), regs. 1(2), 3(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 121(4) omitted (1.4.2022) by virtue of The Public Service (Civil Servants and Others) Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/330), regs. 1(2), 3(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 121 in force at 1.4.2015, see reg. 1(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/1964/regulation/121",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:08:32.082597+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."
}