Part IIICertification of Pension Schemes and Effects on Members' State Scheme Rights and Duties

Chapter IIITermination of contracted-out or appropriate scheme status: state scheme premiums

State scheme premiums

66Power to apply certain provisions to widowers

The following provisions shall be construed as if the references to a person entitled to receive a guaranteed minimum pension included references to a person so entitled by virtue of being the widower of an earner only in such cases as may be prescribed—

a

section 50(1)(a)(ii);

b

section 52(2); and

c

section 55(1)(b);

and the references to a widow in section 58(1) and (2) shall be construed as including references to a widower and the reference in section 142(5) to guaranteed minimum pensions as including a reference to the guaranteed minimum pension of a widower only in those cases.