SCHEDULE 5U.K.CONSEQUENTIAL MODIFICATIONS TO PRIMARY LEGISLATION

Pensions Commutation Act 1871S

1.  In section 4 of the Pensions Commutation Act 1871(1) (power to Treasury to commute pensions), for subsection (2) substitute—

“(2) Where any officer in the naval or land forces of Her Majesty whose pension has been commuted under this Act subsequently marries or forms a civil partnership, the officer’s surviving spouse or surviving civil partner shall not be entitled to any pension, and a child of any such officer born after the date of the commutation of the pension shall not be entitled to compassionate allowance:”.