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)

21.  Amend regulation 60 (trivial commutation of guaranteed minimum pensions) as follows—

(a)in paragraph (1)(b), for “his widow or her widower” substitute “the earner’s widow, widower or surviving civil partner”;

(b)in paragraph (2), for “widow’s or widower’s” (in each place) substitute “widow’s, widower’s or surviving civil partner’s”.