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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-superannuation-consolidation-regulations-1988/regulation-E21",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1652",
  "legislation_title": "The Teachers' Superannuation (Consolidation) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-superannuation-consolidation-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/E21",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "E21",
  "heading": "Family benefits generally",
  "text": "(1) Pensions are payable in accordance with regulations E23 to E28 to widows, widowers, children and nominated beneficiaries of persons who die in, or after having been in, pensionable employment.\n(2) References in those regulations to a surviving spouse are references to a widow or widower; but in the case of a person who has not been in pensionable employment, or paying additional contributions for a current period under regulation C8, at any time after 5th April 1978, such references, and references to a widow or to a widower, do not include references to a man or woman married by that person after his last day in pensionable employment or, as the case may be, the end of the period for which any such contributions were paid.\n(3) Where those regulations provide for a pension to be payable to a widow and there are two or more widows, the widows are jointly entitled to the pension.\n(4) References in those regulations to a person’s child are to a person who is—\n(a) his legitimate, adopted or illegitimate child, or\n(b) accepted by him as a member of the family and wholly or mainly dependent on him,\nand who is a child within the meaning given in paragraphs (5) to (7).\n(5) Subject to paragraphs (6) and (7), for the purposes of regulations E22 to E28 a person is a child while he is unmarried and—\n(a) he has not attained the age of 17, or\n(b) having attained that age, he is receiving full-time education or attending a course of not less than 2 years' full-time training for a trade, profession or calling, or\n(c) having ceased while incapacitated to fall within sub-paragraph (a) or (b), he continues to be incapacitated.\n(6) For the purposes of paragraph (5)(b)—\n(a) a person is to be treated as receiving full-time education up to (but not including) the first Monday in January or the first Monday after Easter Monday or the first Monday in September next following the end of the last term in which he received it, and\n(b) a person is to be treated as not attending a course of training while he is receiving disqualifying remuneration.\n(7) Disqualifying remuneration is remuneration at a rate not less than the annual rate at which an official pension, within the meaning of the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971, would for the time being be payable if it had begun, and first qualified for increases under that Act, on 1st April 1972 and had then been payable at an annual rate of £250.\n(8) References in regulations E23 to E28 to a nominated beneficiary are to a person nominated under regulation E22.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1971 c. 56."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1993/114",
      "affecting_title": "The Teachers' Superannuation (Amendment) Regulations 1993"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/312",
      "affecting_title": "The Teachers' Superannuation (Amendment) Regulations 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/1058",
      "affecting_title": "The Teachers Superannuation (Amendment) Regulations 1994"
    },
    {
      "type": "excl (as am by 1994/1058)",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/2774",
      "affecting_title": "The Teachers' Superannuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1994"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1652/regulation/E21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:57:41.170457+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."
}