The Police Pensions Regulations 1987

Termination of widow’s award on remarriage

C9.—(1) Where a widow entitled to a pension under this Part remarries or has remarried, she shall not be entitled to receive any payment on account of the pension in respect of any period after her remarriage:

• Provided that if at any time after her remarriage she has again become a widow or that marriage has been dissolved, the police authority may, in their discretion, bring the pension into payment.

(2) Where a widow entitled to a gratuity under this Part remarries or has remarried, so much of the gratuity as has not been paid before her remarriage shall not be payable thereafter:

• Provided that if at any time after her remarriage she has again become a widow or that marriage has been dissolved, the police authority may, in their discretion, pay to her the sums which they were actually or contingently liable to pay to her in respect of the gratuity immediately before her remarriage.

(3) Where, after her husband’s death, a woman and a man to whom she is not married are living together as husband and wife, this Regulation shall apply as if for the period for which they so live together she were married to him and any reference therein to her remarriage, her again becoming a widow or the marriage being dissolved shall be construed accordingly.