The Civil Partnership (Pensions and Benefit Payments) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order 2005 No. 2053

SCHEDULE Amendments of provisions of Acts relating to pensions and benefit payments, extending those provisions to civil partners and surviving civil partners

PART 2 Amendments of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c. 5)

9.  In section 155 (effect of alteration of rates of benefit under Parts 2 to 5 of Contributions and Benefits Act), in subsection (7)(c)(1), for “widows and widowers” substitute “widows, widowers and surviving civil partners”.

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Subsection (7)(c) was substituted by section 131(3) of the Pensions Act 1995 (c. 26).