SCHEDULE 1 Amendments 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

24.—(1) 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 1998(1).

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1998 c. 14.