{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pension-scheme-regulations-2014/regulation-135",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pension-scheme-regulations-2014/regulation-135.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/512",
  "legislation_title": "The Teachers' Pension Scheme Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pension-scheme-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/135",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "135",
  "heading": "Surviving qualifying partner",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of a survivor’s pension, a member’s partner (P) is a “surviving qualifying partner” if the conditions in paragraph (2) are satisfied for a continuous period of at least 2 years ending on the member’s death.\n(2) The conditions are—\n(a) the member is able to marry or form a civil partnership with P;\n(b) the member and P live with each other as if they were a married couple or civil partners;\n(c) neither the member nor P lives with a third person as if they were a married couple or civil partners; and\n(d) the member and P are financially interdependent or P is financially dependent on the member.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 135 substituted (with effect from 1.4.2015) by The Teachers Pensions Schemes (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1134), reg. 1(1)(4), 24"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/512/regulation/135",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:24:37.807691+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."
}