PoliceN.I.
120.—(1) The Police Service of Northern Ireland and Police Service of Northern Ireland Reserve (Injury Benefit) Regulations 2006(1) are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 6(4), for “widower” substitute “surviving spouse”.
(3) In regulation 12—
(a)in paragraph (1B)(a)(iii)(2) omit the words after “free to marry each other”,
(b)in paragraph (7), for “to (12)” substitute “to (10)”,
(c)in paragraph (9), for “paragraphs (10), (11) and (12)” substitute “paragraph (10)”,
(d)in paragraph (10), for “a widower” substitute “the surviving spouse”, and
(e)omit paragraphs (11) and (12).
(4) The amendment made by paragraph (3)(a) applies only where the police officer dies on or after 13th January 2020.
(5) In regulation 19(1), for sub-paragraphs (c) and (d) substitute—
“or
(c)where the police officer was a woman who was married or in a civil partnership, and where her spouse or civil partner was permanently disabled at the time the police officer died, to her surviving spouse or surviving civil partner,”.
(6) In paragraph 2(a) of Schedule 5, for “widower” substitute “surviving spouse”.
Commencement Information
I1Reg. 120 in force at 13.1.2020, see reg. 1(2)
I2Reg. 119 in force at 13.1.2020, see reg. 1(2)
Regulation 12(1B) was inserted by S.R. (N.I.) 2012/82. Amendments have been made to regulation 12(1B) which do not affect sub-paragraph (a)(iii).