{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pensions-regulations-2010/regulation-91",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pensions-regulations-2010/regulation-91.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/990",
  "legislation_title": "The Teachers' Pensions Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pensions-regulations-2010",
  "path": "regulation/91",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "91",
  "heading": "Nomination of surviving nominated beneficiary",
  "text": "(1) A person (A) may nominate another person (B) to receive a pension by giving written notice to the Secretary of State if Conditions 1 and 2 are satisfied.\n(2) Condition 1 is that A has reckonable service which has not been used to calculate a retirement pension payable to A.\n(3) Condition 2 is that—\n(a) A is neither married nor a civil partner,\n(b) no person has satisfied the condition in regulation 90(2) in relation to A for a period of two years or more ending on A’s death,\n(c) B is A's parent, step-parent, brother or sister,\n(d) B is neither married nor a civil partner,\n(e) where B is A's parent, brother or sister, either B has never married nor formed a civil partnership or B is widowed or a surviving civil partner,\n(f) where B is A's step-parent, B is widowed or a surviving civil partner,\n(g) where B is A's brother or sister, B is not an eligible child of A,\n(h) B is not living with another person as if they were husband and wife or civil partners, and\n(i) B is wholly or mainly financially dependent on A.\n(4) A nomination ceases to have effect if—\n(a) A gives written notice of revocation to the Secretary of State,\n(b) A makes a subsequent nomination under this regulation,\n(c) a person has satisfied the condition in regulation 90(2) in relation to A for a period of two years or more ending on A’s death;\n(d) either A or B marries or forms a civil partnership,\n(e) B begins to live with another person as if they were husband and wife or civil partners, or\n(f) B dies.\n(5) B is A's surviving nominated beneficiary if, at the date of A's death—\n(a) the nomination has effect, and\n(b) Condition 2 is satisfied.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 91(3)(b) substituted (1.9.2019 with effect from 1.9.2010) by The Teachers' Pensions Schemes (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1134), regs. 1(1)(3), 10(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 91(4)(c) substituted (1.9.2019 with effect from 1.9.2010) by The Teachers' Pensions Schemes (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1134), regs. 1(1)(3), 10(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Reg. 91 modified (1.4.2015) by The Teachers' Pension Scheme Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/512), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 53 (with reg. 183)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/990/regulation/91",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:45:27.973590+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."
}