Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Sch. 5 modified (temp. from 1.12.1999 until 5.10.2002) by The Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/3147 (N.I. 11)), arts. 1(4)(b), 49(7)(b) (the temp. modification lapsing on the coming into operation of S.R. 2001/441)
C2Sch. 5 sums amended (with effect in accordance with art. 6 of the amending Rule) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order (Northern Ireland) 2004 (S.R. 2004/82), arts. 1(1)(e)(2), 4(4)(b)
8(1)For the purposes of paragraphs 1 to 3 above in their application to a Category B retirement pension to which a married woman is entitled by virtue of her husband’s contributions, a married woman who would have become entitled to such a pension on an earlier day if her husband’s entitlement to his Category A retirement pension had not been deferred shall be treated as having (in addition to any other period of enhancement) a period of enhancement which begins on that earlier day and ends on the same day as her husband’s period of enhancement.N.I.
(2)The reference in sub-paragraph (1) above to the day on which the woman’s husband’s period of enhancement ends shall, where the marriage is terminated before that day, be construed as a reference to the day on which the marriage is terminated.
[F1(3)In the case of the following pensions (where “P” is a married person and “S” is the other party to the marriage), that is—
(a)a Category B retirement pension to which P is entitled by virtue of the contributions of S, or
(b)P’s Category A retirement pension with an increase under section 51A(2) above attributable to the contributions of S,
the reference in paragraph 2(3) above to the pension to which a person would have been entitled if that person’s entitlement had not been deferred shall be construed as a reference to the pension to which P would have been entitled if neither P’s nor S’s entitlement to a retirement pension had been deferred.
(4)Paragraph 4(1)(b) above shall not apply to a Category B retirement pension to which S was or would have been entitled by virtue of W’s contributions (“W” and “S” having the same meaning as in paragraph 4(1); and where the Category A retirement pension to which S was or would have been entitled includes an increase under section 51A(2) above attributable to W’s contributions, the increase to which W is entitled under that paragraph shall be calculated as if there had been no increase under that section.]
Textual Amendments
F1Sch. 5 para. 8(3)(4) substituted (16.12.1995) by S.I. 1995/3213 (N.I. 22), arts. 1, 123, Sch. 2 para. 18(18)