C1C2 Part IIIF3F11Schemes that were contracted-out etc. and Effects on Members’ State Scheme Rights ...
Words in Pt. 3 heading substituted (6.4.2016) by Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 5), s. 53(3), Sch. 13 para. 3(a)
Pt. 3: power to modify conferred (1.6.1996 for certain purposes otherwise 6.4.1997) by S.I. 1995/3213 (N.I. 22), art. 146(1); S.R. 1996/91, art. 2(f); S.R. 1997/192, art. 2
Pt. 3: power to transfer functions conferred (1.4.1999) by 1999 c. 2, s. 23(1)(2)(6); S.I. 1999/527, art. 2(b), Sch. 2
Chapter IF13Schemes that were contracted-out: guaranteed minimum pensions and alteration of scheme rules etc.
Pt. 3 Ch. 1 heading substituted (6.4.2016) by Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 5), s. 53(3), Sch. 13 para. 4
F8Guaranteed minimum pensions
S. 9 cross-heading substituted (6.4.2016) by Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 5), s. 53(3), Sch. 13 para. 12
20DF5Survivors' benefits
F61
This section specifies the benefits mentioned in Condition 4 of section 20B.
2
The first benefit is that if the earner F2is a man married to a woman or a woman married to a woman in a relevant gender change case, and the earner dies (whether before or after attaining normal pension age) leaving a widow, she is entitled to a pension of at least half the value of the pension to which the earner would have been entitled by reference to employment during the period—
a
beginning with 6th April 1978, and
b
ending with 5th April 1997.
3
The second benefit is that if the earner F12is a married woman (other than in a relevant gender change case), a man married to a man, or F1(subject to subsection (3A)) a civil partner, and the earner dies (whether before or after attaining normal pension age) leaving a widower F10, widow or surviving civil partner, he or she is entitled to a pension of at least half the value of the pension to which the earner would have been entitled by reference to employment during the period—
a
beginning with 6th April 1988, and
b
ending with 5th April 1997.
F93A
The third benefit is that if the earner is a man, or a woman in a relevant gender change case, who is a civil partner and the earner dies (whether before or after attaining normal pension age) leaving a surviving civil partner who is a woman, she is entitled to a pension of at least half the value of the pension to which the earner would have been entitled by reference to employment during the period—
a
beginning with 6th April 1978, and
b
ending with 5th April 1997.
F74
In relation to an earner who is a woman, a reference in this section to a relevant gender change case is a reference to a case where—
a
the earner is a woman by virtue of a full gender recognition certificate having been issued under the Gender Recognition Act 2004, and
b
the marriage of the earner and her widow F4, or the civil partnership between the earner and her surviving civil partner, (that ends with the earner’s death) subsisted before the time when the certificate was issued.
5
This section is subject to regulations under section 34A.
Words in Pt. 3 heading omitted (6.4.2016) by virtue of Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 5), s. 53(3), Sch. 13 para. 3(b)