The Public Service (Civil Servants and Others) Pensions (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022

Amendment of regulation 101

This section has no associated Explanatory Memorandum

31.  For regulation 101 (Meaning of “surviving nominated partner”), substitute—

Meaning of “surviving partner”

101.(1) A person (P) is a surviving partner of a deceased member of this scheme if P satisfies the scheme manager that immediately before the member’s death—

(a)P and the member were cohabiting as partners in an exclusive, committed long-term relationship;

(b)P and the member were not prevented from entering into a marriage or a civil partnership; and

(c)either P was financially dependent on the member, or P and the member were financially interdependent..