{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pensions-schemes-amendment-regulations-2019/regulation-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pensions-schemes-amendment-regulations-2019/regulation-24.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2019/1134",
  "legislation_title": "The Teachers’ Pensions Schemes (Amendment) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pensions-schemes-amendment-regulations-2019",
  "path": "regulation/24",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Amendments to regulation 135",
  "text": "For regulation 135 substitute—\n“Surviving qualifying partner\n135. (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": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/1134/regulation/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:38:33.484398+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."
}