The Civil Partnership (Contracted-out Occupational and Appropriate Personal Pension Schemes) (Surviving Civil Partners) Order 2005

28.  Amend regulation 5 (circumstances in which and periods for which pension or annuity is to be paid to widow or widower after being paid to member)(1) as follows—

(a)in the heading preceding it, for “widow or widower” substitute “widow, widower or surviving civil partner”;

(b)in paragraph (1)—

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

(ii)in sub-paragraph (b) for “widow’s or widower’s” substitute “widow’s, widower’s or surviving civil partner’s”;

(c)for paragraph (2), substitute the following paragraphs—

“(2) There is excluded from the period prescribed in paragraph (1)(b) any period after—

(a)the widow’s or widower’s remarriage or the surviving civil partner’s marriage under pensionable age; or

(b)subject to paragraph (3), the widow’s or widower’s formation of a civil partnership, or the surviving civil partner’s formation of a subsequent civil partnership under pensionable age.

(3) Paragraph (2)(b) does not apply where the member dies before 5th December 2005.”.