SCHEDULE 2Amendments of provisions of Regulations relating to contracted-out occupational and appropriate personal pension schemes, extending those provisions to surviving civil partners

PART 2The Contracting-out (Protection of Pensions) Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/166)

3.  In regulation 2 (hybrid benefits), in paragraph (1), for “widow or widower” substitute “widow, widower or surviving civil partner”.

4.  Amend regulation 4 (pensions for widows and widowers varied after commencement)(1) as follows—

(a)in the heading preceding it, for “widows and widowers” substitute “widows, widowers and surviving civil partners”;

(b)in paragraphs (1) and (2), for “widow or widower” substitute “widow, widower or surviving civil partner”.

5.  Amend regulation 5 (the relevant sum for widows and widowers)(2) as follows—

(a)in the heading preceding it, for “widows and widowers” substitute “widows, widowers and surviving civil partners”;

(b)in paragraph (2)—

(i)for “widow or widower” (in the first place where those words occur) substitute “widow, widower or surviving civil partner”;

(ii)in sub-paragraph (a), after “widow or widower” insert “or being then a civil partner of the surviving civil partner”.

6.  In regulation 8 (the later earnings addition), in paragraph (1), for “widow or widower” substitute “widow, widower or surviving civil partner”.