The Police Pensions Regulations 1987

Limitation on award to widow living apart from her husband and widow’s requisite benefit pension

C8.—(1) A widow shall not be entitled to an award under any of the preceding provisions of this Part if, at the time of her husband’s death—

(a) she was separated from him by an order or decree of a competent court, and

(b) he was not required by an order or decree of a competent court to contribute to her support and was not in fact regularly contributing to her support;

and, for the purposes hereof, contributions to a woman for the support of her child shall be treated as contributions for her support.

(2) A widow of a member of a police force who, but for paragraph (1), would be entitled to an award under any of the preceding provisions of this Part shall, instead, be entitled to a widow’s requisite benefit pension calculated in accordance with Part V of Schedule C.