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1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Civil Partnership (Miscellaneous and Consequential Provisions) Order 2005.
(2) This Order shall come into force as follows—
(a)paragraph 1 of Schedule 1, shall come into force on the day after the day on which this Order is made;
(b)paragraphs 3 and 5 of Schedule 1, and Schedule 2, shall come into force on 5th December 2005;
(c)article 2 and paragraphs 2 and 4 of Schedule 1, shall come into force on 5th December 2005, immediately after the coming into force of the Civil Partnership (Pensions and Benefit Payments) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order 2005(1),
and this article, article 3 and article 4 shall come into force accordingly.
(3) Subject to paragraphs (4) to (6), this Order extends to England and Wales and Scotland only.
(4) Article 2, article 3 and this article, also extend to Northern Ireland.
(5) Article 4, paragraph 3 of Schedule 1, and Schedule 2 extend to Northern Ireland only.
(6) Paragraph 5 of Schedule 1 does not extend to Scotland.
2. In article 1 of the Civil Partnership (Pensions and Benefit Payments) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order 2005 (citation, commencement and extent), in paragraph (4) omit “except paragraph 27(c) of Part 6 of the Schedule and Article 2 in so far as it relates to that paragraph, which extend to Northern Ireland”.
3. Schedule 1 to this Order, which contains amendments of Acts relating to pensions and benefit payments and the protection of vulnerable adults, and which extends those provisions to civil partners and surviving civil partners, and those living together as if civil partners, shall have effect.
4. Schedule 2 to this Order, which contains amendments of secondary legislation relating to occupational and personal pensions, and which extends those provisions to civil partners and surviving civil partners, shall have effect.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.
Anne C McGuire
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department for Work and Pensions
28th October 2005
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