SCHEDULEAmendments of provisions of Acts relating to pensions and benefit payments, extending those provisions to civil partners and surviving civil partners

PART 6Amendments of the Pensions Act 2004 (c. 35)

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Amend paragraph 26 of Part 3 (transitional provisions) of Schedule 11 (deferral of retirement pensions and shared additional pensions) as follows—

a

in the heading preceding it, after “Widowers'” insert “and surviving civil partners'”, and after “widowed person's” insert “or surviving civil partner's”;

b

after “widower” insert “or surviving civil partner”;

c

after “widowed person's” insert “or surviving civil partner's”; and

d

for “he was over pensionable age when his wife died” substitute “the widower or surviving civil partner was over pensionable age when his wife or, as the case may be, his or her civil partner, died”.