SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 5N.I.[F1Pension Increase or Lump Sum Where Entitlement to Retirement Pension is Deferred]

Textual Amendments

F1Sch. 5 heading substituted (17.2.2005 for specified purposes, 6.4.2005 in so far as not already in force) by The Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/255), art. 1(4), Sch. 9 para. 2

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)

C3Sch. 5: sums amended (with effect in accordance with arts. 1(2), 6 of the amending Rule) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order (Northern Ireland) 2008 (S.R. 2008/92), arts. 1(1)(g), 4(4)(b)

[F2Married couples [F3and civil partners]]N.I.

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.

[F4(3)In the case of the following pensions (where “P” is a married person [F5or a civil partner] and “S” is the other party to the marriage [F6or civil partnership]), 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,

[F7the references in paragraphs 2(3) and 3B(3) and (5)] 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.]

[F8(4)The conditions in paragraph 3C(1)(c) and 4(1)(a) are not satisfied by a Category B retirement pension to which S was or would have been entitled by virtue of W’s contributions.

(5)Where the Category A retirement pension to which S was or would have been entitled includes an increase under section 51A(2) attributable to W’s contributions, the increase or lump sum to which W is entitled under paragraph 4(1A) or 7A(2) is to be calculated as if there had been no increase under that section.

(6)In sub-paragraphs (4) and (5), “W” and “S” have the same meaning as in paragraph 3C, 4 or 7A, as the case requires.]