Occupational Pension Schemes (Contracting-out) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996N.I.
88.—(1) The Occupational Pension Schemes (Contracting-out) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996(1) are amended as follows.
(2) Omit regulation 1(1A) (meaning of living together as civil partners).
(3) In regulation 26(1)—
(a)in sub-paragraph (b), for paragraphs (iii) and (iv) substitute—
“or
(iii)lives together with another person as if spouses of each other,”, and
(b)in sub-paragraph (c), for the words from “death” to the end substitute “death living together with another person, whom he or she is not married to or in a civil partnership with, as if they were spouses of each other.”.
(4) For regulation 26(2) substitute—
“(2) The following provisions do not apply where the scheme member died before 5th December 2005—
(i)paragraph (1)(b)(i) so far as it relates to a marriage or remarriage involving two people of the same sex,
(ii)paragraph (1)(b)(ii), and
(iii)paragraph (1)(b)(iii), and paragraph (1)(c), so far as they relate to the living together of two people of the same sex.”.
Commencement Information
I1Reg. 88 in force at 13.1.2020, see reg. 1(2)
S.R. (N.I.) 1996/493. Regulation 1(1A) was inserted, and regulation 26 substituted, by Schedule 2 to S.R. (N.I.) 2005/433.