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

Valid from 05/12/2005

24.—(1) In section 165(1)(c)(1) (determination of questions by Department) for “widow or widower” there shall be substituted “widow, widower or surviving civil partner”.N.I.

(2) The reference in sub-paragraph (1) to section 165 is a reference to that section as it has effect without the substitution made by paragraph 99 of Schedule 6 to the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998(2).

Commencement Information

I1Sch. 1 para. 24 in operation at 5.12.2005, see art. 1(3)

(1)

Subsection (1)(c) was amended by article 21 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2002. See Article 15(1) of the Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) (Northern Ireland) Order 1999