The Civil Partnership (Pensions and Benefit Payments) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order 2005

PART 3 Amendments of the Pension Schemes Act 1993 (c. 48)

11.  In section 70 (interpretation), in subsection (1), in the definition of “long service benefit”, for “wife or husband, widow or widower” substitute “wife, husband, civil partner, widow, widower, or surviving civil partner”.

12.  In section 84 (basis of revaluation)(1), in subsection (5), for “widow or widower” substitute “widow, widower or surviving civil partner”.

13.  In section 96 (further provisions concerning exercise of option under section 95)(2), in subsection (3)(a), for “widow’s or, as the case may be, widower's” substitute “widow's, widower’s or surviving civil partner’s (as the case may be)”.

14.  In section 113 (disclosure of information about schemes to members etc.), in subsection (2)(b), after “spouses” insert “or civil partners”.

15.  In section 129 (overriding requirements), in subsection (3)(e)—

(a) for “widow’s or widower's” substitute “widow's, widower’s or surviving civil partner's”; and

(b) for “widow or widower” (in each place) substitute “widow, widower or surviving civil partner”.

16.  In section 146 (functions of the Pensions Ombudsman), in subsection (7)(b), for “widow or widower” substitute “widow, widower or surviving civil partner”.

17.  In section 159A (no forfeiture on bankruptcy of rights under personal pension schemes)(3), in subsection (2)(a)(i), after “rights on divorce etc.” insert “or on dissolution etc. of a civil partnership”.

18.  In section 181 (general interpretation), in subsection (1), in the definition of “money purchase benefits”, for “widow or widower” substitute “widow, widower or surviving civil partner”.

19.  In paragraph 1(1)(a) of Schedule 3 (methods of revaluing accrued pension benefits), for “widow’s or widower's” substitute “widow's, widower’s or surviving civil partner's”.

(1)

Section 84(5) was amended by paragraph 62 of Schedule 5 to and Part III of Schedule 7 to the Pensions Act 1995 (c. 26) and section 281 of the Pensions Act 2004 (c. 35).

(2)

Section 96(3)(a) was amended by paragraph 63(b) of Schedule 5 to the Pensions Act 1995 (c. 26).

(3)

Section 159A was inserted by section 14 of the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 (c. 30).