SCHEDULE 2Amendments of provisions of Regulations relating to contracted-out occupational and appropriate personal pension schemes, extending those provisions to surviving civil partners

PART 4The Occupational Pension Schemes (Contracting-out) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/1172)

12.

In regulation 37 (circumstances in which the age-related payments are not to be paid)24, in paragraphs (4) and (5)—

(a)

for “widow or widower” substitute “widow, widower or surviving civil partner”; and

(b)

for “died unmarried” substitute “was not married or a civil partner at the time of his or her death”.