SCHEDULE 1Amendments of the Pension Schemes Act relating to contracted-out occupational and appropriate personal pension schemes, extending those provisions to surviving civil partners

15.

In section 4320 (further provisions concerning entitlement to guaranteed minimum pensions for the purposes of section 42)—

(a)

in subsection (1) after “widower” there shall be inserted “or surviving civil partner”;

(b)

in subsection (3)—

(i)

for “widow or widower”, in each place where it occurs, there shall be substituted “widow, widower or surviving civil partner”, and

(ii)

for “widow’s or widower's” there shall be substituted “widow's, widower’s or surviving civil partner's”.