Version Superseded: 05/12/2005
Point in time view as at 08/01/2001. This version of this provision has been superseded.
Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992, Section 36 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 04 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
(1)A person whose spouse dies on or after the appointed day shall be entitled to a bereavement payment if—
(a)either that person was under pensionable age at the time when the spouse died or the spouse was then not entitled to a Category A retirement pension under section 44 below; and
(b)the spouse satisfied the contribution condition for a bereavement payment specified in Schedule 3, Part I, paragraph 4.
(2)A bereavement payment shall not be payable to a person if that person and a person of the opposite sex to whom that person was not married were living together as husband and wife at the time of the spouse’s death.
(3)In this section “the appointed day” means the day appointed for the coming into operation of Articles 51 to 53 of the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999.]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 36 substituted (24.4.2000 for specified purposes and 9.4.2001 otherwise) by S.I. 1999/3147 (N.I. 11), art. 51(1); S.R. 2000/133, art. 2(3)(a), Sch. Pt. I
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