The Civil Partnership (Judicial Pensions and Church Pensions, etc.) Order 2005

PART 8Amendments of Church Measures

Church Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 1960

78.  The Church Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 1960(1) is amended as follows.

79.  In section 20 (provisions as to pensions of Church Estates Commissioners), in subsection (2A)—

(a)after “widower” insert “or surviving civil partner”, and

(b)after “spouse” insert “or civil partner”.

Clergy Pensions Measure 1961

80.  The Clergy Pensions Measure 1961(2) is amended as follows.

81.—(1) In section 17 (payments out of general fund of Commissioners), in subsection (3), after “widowers” insert “, surviving civil partners”.

(2) In section 26 (powers of Board as to provision of residences)—

(a)in subsection (1)(a), after “former spouses” insert “and civil partners or former civil partners”,

(b)in subsection (1)(b), after “spouses” insert “, surviving civil partners, former civil partners”,

(c)in subsection (3A)(b), after “spouse” insert “or surviving civil partner or former civil partner”, and

(d)in subsection (3A), in the words following paragraph (b), after “former spouse” insert “or civil partner or former civil partner”.

(3) In section 27 (powers of Board to administer pensions schemes for church workers), in subsection (1), for “widows widowers” substitute “widows, widowers, surviving civil partners”.

(4) In section 30 (power of Board to act as Trustee), in subsections (1) and (2), for “widows widowers”, in each place, substitute “widows, widowers, surviving civil partners”.

(5) In section 38 (determination of questions), in subsection (1)(g), after “widower” insert “, surviving civil partner,”.

(6) In section 38A (power of Board to establish additional pensions schemes for clerks), in subsection (1), after “widowers” insert “, surviving civil partners”.

(7) In section 40 (diocesan widows and dependants committees), for “widows widowers”, in each place, substitute “widows, widowers, surviving civil partners”.

Clergy Pensions (Amendment) Measure 1972

82.  The Clergy Pensions (Amendment) Measure 1972(3) is amended as follows.

83.  In section 6 (power of General Synod to make further provision by regulations for clergy pensions)—

(a)in subsection (1)(b), after “widowers” insert “, surviving civil partners”,

(b)in subsection (1)(c), after “spouses” insert “or civil partners”,

(c)in subsection (1)(d), after “widowers” insert “, surviving civil partners”, and

(d)in subsection (2), after “widowers” insert “, surviving civil partners”.

Deaconesses and Lay Workers (Pensions) Measure 1980

84.  The Deaconesses and Lay Workers (Pensions) Measure 1980(4) is amended as follows.

85.  In section 1 (power of Church Commissioners to make payments for provision, etc of pension benefits for deaconesses and lay workers), in subsection (1)(a), after “widowers” insert “or surviving civil partners”.

Pastoral Measure 1983

86.  The Pastoral Measure 1983(5) is amended as follows.

87.  In Schedule 4 (compensation of clergy), in paragraph 13(1)(c) and (3), after “spouse”, in each place, insert “or surviving civil partner”.

Pensions Measure 1997

88.  The Pensions Measure 1997(6) is amended as follows.

89.  In section 1 (past service and funded schemes), in subsection (1), after “widowers” insert “, surviving civil partners”.

Church of England (Pensions) Measure 2003

90.  The Church of England (Pensions) Measure 2003(7) is amended as follows.

91.—(1) In section 1 (General Purposes Fund), in subsection (2)—

(a)in paragraph (b), after “spouse,” insert “surviving civil partner or former civil partner,”,

(b)in paragraph (c), after “former spouses” insert “or civil partners or former civil partners”, and

(c)in paragraph (d), after “spouses” insert “, surviving civil partners, former civil partners”.

(2) In section 2 (dissolution of Pensions Augmentation Fund), in subsection (3), after “spouse” insert “, surviving civil partner, former civil partner”.