6.—(1) Amend section 133 (furnishing of addresses for maintenance proceedings, etc.) as follows.
(2) For “man or woman” (in each place) substitute “person”.
(3) In paragraph (a), for “man’s wife or former wife, or the woman’s husband or former husband” substitute “person’s spouse, former spouse, civil partner or former civil partner”.
(4) For paragraph (b) substitute the following paragraph—
“(b)for the maintenance or education of any child of the person, or of any child of the person’s spouse, former spouse, civil partner or former civil partner.”.
7. In section 134 (arrangements for housing benefit), in subsection (8)(a), after “widow's” insert “or surviving civil partner's”.
8. In section 150 (annual up-rating of benefits)(1), in subsection (1)(dza), after “surviving spouses” insert “or civil partners”.
9. In section 155 (effect of alteration of rates of benefit under Parts 2 to 5 of Contributions and Benefits Act), in subsection (7)(c)(2), for “widows and widowers” substitute “widows, widowers and surviving civil partners”.
10. In section 159B (effect of alterations affecting state pension credit)(3), in subsection (6), in the definition of “war widow’s or widower’s pension”—
(a)in paragraph (a), for “any widow’s or widower's” substitute “any widow's, widower’s or surviving civil partner's”; and
(b)in paragraph (b), for “widow or widower” substitute “widow, widower or surviving civil partner”.
Section 150(1)(dza) was inserted by paragraph 21 of Schedule 11 to the Pensions Act 2004 (c. 35).
Subsection (7)(c) was substituted by section 131(3) of the Pensions Act 1995 (c. 26).
Section 159B was inserted by paragraph 17 of Schedule 2 to the State Pension Credit Act 2002 (c. 16). The definition of “war widow’s or widower’s pension” in subsection (6) was amended by paragraph 188 of Schedule 6 to the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 (c. 1).