{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pension-scheme-regulations-2014/regulation-138",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pension-scheme-regulations-2014/regulation-138.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/138",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "138",
  "heading": "Payment of death grant",
  "text": "On the death of a member (D), where a death grant is to be paid, the payment must be made—\n(a) to D's death grant beneficiary;\n(b) if there is more than one death grant beneficiary, to those beneficiaries in the shares determined in accordance with regulation 133(4) and (5); or\n(c) if there is no death grant beneficiary—\n(i) to D's surviving adult; or\n(ii) if there is no surviving adult, to D's personal representatives as part of D's estate.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 138 substituted (retrospective to 1.4.2015) by The Teachers Pensions Schemes (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/218), regs. 1(2)(b), 3(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/512/regulation/138",
    "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."
}