The Civil Partnership (Contracted-out Occupational and Appropriate Personal Pension Schemes) (Surviving Civil Partners) Order 2005

14.  Amend section 47 (further provisions concerning entitlement to guaranteed minimum pensions for the purposes of section 46) as follows—

(a) in subsection (1)(1), after “widower” insert “or surviving civil partner”;

(b) in subsection (3)—

(i) for “widow or widower” (in each place) substitute “widow, widower or surviving civil partner”; and

(ii) for “widow’s or widower's” substitute “widow's, widower’s or surviving civil partner's”.

(1)

Subsection (1) was amended by section 18 of the State Pension Credit Act 2002 (c. 16) and by paragraph 57 of Schedule 1 to and Schedule 2 to the Social Security (Incapacity for Work) Act 1994 (c. 18).