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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1975/schedule-9/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1975/schedule-9/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1975/14",
  "legislation_title": "Social Security Act 1975",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1975",
  "path": "schedule/9/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Where a person would but for paragraph 2 or 3 above be entitled in respect of another person's death to a pension under section 72, he shall, subject to the following provisions of this Schedule, be entitled in lieu thereof to a gratuity.\n(2) The amount of any gratuity payable by virtue of this paragraph shall, subject to section 74 of this Act and the subsequent provisions of this Schedule, be £104; and any such gratuity shall be payable, if and in such cases as regulations so provide, by instalments.\n(3) No person shall be entitled in respect of a person's death both to a gratuity under this paragraph and to an allowance under section 72.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1975/14/schedule/9/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:40:38.067895+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."
}