The Local Government Superannuation (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1989

Entitlement to widow’s short-term and long-term pensions

15.  In regulation E5 of the principal Regulations—

(a) in paragraph (1)(c)(i), for the words “5 years”, there shall be substituted the words “2 years”;

(b) in paragraph (1), for the words “paragraphs (3) to (5)”, there shall be substituted the words “paragraphs (1A) and (3) to (5)”; and

(c) after paragraph (1) there shall be inserted the following:—

“(1A) Where paragraph (1)(c)(i) applies and the total of the man’s reckonable service and any qualifying service when added together amounted to less than 5 years, his widow is, or as the case may be his widows are jointly, entitled to a widow’s special short-term pension under regulation E7 and not to a widow’s short-term pension under regulation E6(1).

(1B) Where paragraph (1A) applies, a widow’s long-term pension shall not be payable until payment of the widow’s special short-term pension ceases.”.