The Civil Partnership (Pensions and Benefit Payments) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2005 No. 434

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

PART 6 Amendment of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 2005

31.  In Schedule 9 (deferral of retirement pensions and shared additional pensions), in paragraph 21 of Part 3 (transitional provisions)—

(a) in the heading, after “Widowers'” there shall be inserted “and surviving civil partners'”, and after “widowed person's” there shall be inserted “or surviving civil partner's”;

(b) after “widower” there shall be inserted “or surviving civil partner”;

(c) after “widowed person's” there shall be inserted “or surviving civil partner's”; and

(d) for “he was over pensionable age when his wife died” there shall be substituted “the widower or surviving civil partner was over pensionable age when his wife or, as the case may be, his or her civil partner died”.