SCHEDULEAmendment of provisions of Acts and Orders relating to pensions and benefit payments, extending those provisions to civil partners and surviving civil partners

PART 3Amendment of the Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993

16.

In section 125(3)(e) (overriding requirements)—

(a)

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

(b)

in sub-paragraph (i) for “widow or widower married” there shall be substituted “widow, widower or surviving civil partner married or, as the case may be, formed a civil partnership”; and

(c)

in sub-paragraphs (ii) and (iii) for “widow or widower” there shall be substituted “widow, widower or surviving civil partner”.