SCHEDULE 1Amendments of the Pension Schemes Act 1993 (c.48) relating to contracted-out occupational and appropriate personal pension schemes, extending those provisions to surviving civil partners

14.  Amend section 47 (further provisions concerning entitlement to guaranteed minimum pensions for the purposes of section 46) as follows—

(a)in subsection (1)(1), after “widower” insert “or surviving civil partner”;

(b)in subsection (3)—

(i)for “widow or widower” (in each place) substitute “widow, widower or surviving civil partner”; and

(ii)for “widow’s or widower’s” substitute “widow’s, widower’s or surviving civil partner’s”.