SCHEDULEAmendments of provisions of Acts relating to pensions and benefit payments, extending those provisions to civil partners and surviving civil partners
PART 4Amendments of the Pensions Act 1995 (c. 26)
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In section 41 (provision of documents for members), in subsection (4)(b), after “spouses” insert “or civil partners”.
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In section 50A (meaning of “person with an interest in the scheme”)16, in subsection (1)(b), after “widower” insert “, surviving civil partner”.
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In section 63 (equal treatment rule: supplementary), in subsection (2), for “family or marital” substitute “family, marital or civil partnership”.
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In section 91 (inalienability of occupational pension)17, in subsection (5)(a), (b) and (c), after “widower” insert “, surviving civil partner”.
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In section 92 (forfeiture, etc.), in subsection (3), for paragraph (b) substitute the following paragraph—
b
the spouse, civil partner, widow, widower or surviving civil partner of the member,
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In section 124 (interpretation of Part I), in subsection (1), in the appropriate place insert—
“civil partnership status”, in relation to a person, means whether that person has previously formed a civil partnership and, if so, whether that civil partnership has ended,