PART 6Amendments: Pensions and Social Security: Primary Legislation

Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1989I163

In paragraph 2 of Schedule 5 to the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 198989 (the principle of equal treatment)—

a

in sub-paragraph (5), after “marital” insert “, civil partnership”, and

b

in sub-paragraph (9)—

i

in paragraphs (a) and (b), for “an unmarried” substitute “a relevant”, and

ii

in paragraph (b), for the words after “some other person” substitute “, without being married to or civil partners of each other, live together as if spouses of each other”.