{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pensions-regulations-1997/regulation-E30",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pensions-regulations-1997/regulation-E30.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/3001",
  "legislation_title": "The Teachers' Pensions Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pensions-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/E30",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "E30",
  "heading": "Commencement and duration of long-term family pensions",
  "text": "(1) A pension under regulation E26 payable to a surviving spouse or a nominated beneficiary (“an adult pension”) is to be paid—\n(a) from the day on which any short-term pension that became so payable under regulation E24 ceases to be payable, or\n(b) if no short-term pension became payable, from the day after that of the death.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), an adult pension is payable for life.\n(3) Unless the Secretary of State determines otherwise in the particular case, and subject always to regulation E1(3)(c) and (d) (guaranteed minimum pension for surviving spouse), an adult pension is not payable during or after any marriage or period of cohabitation outside marriage.\n(4) A pension under regulation E26 payable to or for the benefit of a child or children (“a children’s pension”) is to be paid—\n(a) from the day on which any short-term pension that became so payable, or payable to a surviving spouse or a nominated beneficiary, under regulation E24 ceases to be payable, or\n(b) if no short-term pension became payable, from the day after that of the death.\n(5) A children’s pension ceases to be payable to a person or for his benefit when he ceases to be a child.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/665",
      "affecting_title": "The Teachers' Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2000"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/3001/regulation/E30",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:40:26.186253+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."
}