SCHEDULE 1Amendments of the Pension Schemes Act 1993 (c. 48) relating to contracted-out occupational and appropriate personal pension schemes, extending those provisions to surviving civil partners

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In section 170 (determination of questions by Secretary of State), in subsection (1)(c), for “widow or widower” substitute “widow, widower or surviving civil partner”.

2

The reference in sub-paragraph (1) to section 170 is a reference to that section as it has effect without the substitution made by paragraph 131 of Schedule 7 to the Social Security Act 199817.