The Personal Injuries (Civilians) (Amendment) (No.3) Scheme 2005

Amendment of article 31 (temporary allowances to widows or widowers and unmarried dependants who lived as wives of severely disabled persons)

8.  Article 31 shall be amended as follows—

(1) for the heading of the article there shall be substituted “Temporary allowances to surviving spouses, surviving civil partners, dependants who lived as spouses and dependants who lived as civil partners of severely disabled persons”;

(2) in paragraph (1) for the words “widow or widower or unmarried dependant who lived as his spouse” there shall be substituted “surviving spouse, surviving civil partner, dependant who lived as his spouse or dependant who lived as his civil partner”;

(3) in paragraphs (2), (3), and (5) for the words “widow or widower” (in each place) there shall be substituted “surviving spouse or surviving civil partner”;

(4) in sub-paragraph (2)(a) for the word “spouse's” there shall be substituted “spouse’s or civil partner's”;

(5) in sub-paragraph (2)(b) after the word “spouse” there shall be inserted “or civil partner”;

(6) in paragraph (3) for the words “An unmarried dependant who lived as the spouse” there shall be inserted “A dependant who lived as the spouse or civil partner”;

(7) in paragraph (4) for the words “widow or widower of a person or an unmarried dependant who lived as the spouse” there shall be substituted “surviving spouse, surviving civil partner, dependant who lived as the spouse or dependant who lived as the civil partner,”; and

(8) in paragraph (5) for the word “re-marries” there shall be inserted “enters into a subsequent marriage or forms a subsequent civil partnership”.