The Civil Partnership (Pensions and Benefit Payments) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2005

Prospective

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

11.  The Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993(1) is amended as follows. N.I.

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. para. 11 in operation at 5.12.2005, see art. 1(3)

12.  In section 66(1) (interpretation: Part IV), in the definition of “long service benefit”, for “wife or husband, widow or widower” there shall be substituted “wife, husband, civil partner, widow, widower or surviving civil partner”. N.I.

Commencement Information

I2 Sch. para. 12 in operation at 5.12.2005, see art. 1(3)

13.  In section 80(5)(2) (basis of revaluation), for “widow or widower” there shall be substituted “widow, widower or surviving civil partner”. N.I.

Commencement Information

I3 Sch. para. 13 in operation at 5.12.2005, see art. 1(3)

14.  In section 92(3)(a)(3) (further provisions concerning exercise of option under section 91), for “widow’s or, as the case may be, widower's” there shall be substituted “widow's, widower’s or surviving civil partner’s (as the case may be)”. N.I.

Commencement Information

I4 Sch. para. 14 in operation at 5.12.2005, see art. 1(3)

15.  In section 109(2)(b) (disclosure of information about schemes to members, etc.), after “spouses” there shall be inserted “or civil partners”. N.I.

Commencement Information

I5 Sch. para. 15 in operation at 5.12.2005, see art. 1(3)

16.  In section 125(3)(e) (overriding requirements)— N.I.

(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”.

Commencement Information

I6 Sch. para. 16 in operation at 5.12.2005, see art. 1(3)

17.  In section 142(7)(b) (functions of the Pensions Ombudsman), for “widow or widower” there shall be substituted “widow, widower or surviving civil partner”. N.I.

Commencement Information

I7 Sch. para. 17 in operation at 5.12.2005, see art. 1(3)

18.  In section 155A(2)(a)(i)(4) (no forfeiture on bankruptcy of rights under personal pension schemes), after “rights on divorce etc.” there shall be inserted “or on dissolution etc. of a civil partnership”. N.I.

Commencement Information

I8 Sch. para. 18 in operation at 5.12.2005, see art. 1(3)

19.  In section 176(1) (general interpretation), in the definition of “money purchase benefits”, for “widow or widower” there shall be substituted “widow, widower or surviving civil partner”. N.I.

Commencement Information

I9 Sch. para. 19 in operation at 5.12.2005, see art. 1(3)

20.  In Schedule 2 (methods of revaluing accrued pension benefits), in paragraph 1(1)(a) (the final salary method) for “widow’s or widower's” there shall be substituted “widow's, widower’s or surviving civil partner's”. N.I.

Commencement Information

I10 Sch. para. 20 in operation at 5.12.2005, see art. 1(3)

(1)

1993 c. 49

(2)

Section 80(5) was amended by paragraph 52 of Schedule 3 to the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 and Article 258 of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 2005

(3)

Section 92(3)(a) was amended by paragraph 53(b) of Schedule 3 to the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995

(4)

Section 155A was inserted by Article 14(1) of the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999