The Occupational Pension Schemes (Contracting-out) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

Reference scheme: circumstances in which widows' or widowers' pensions need not be payable

26.  For the purposes of section 8B(4)(a) of the Act (reference scheme to provide widows' and widowers' pensions except in prescribed circumstances) the prescribed circumstances are where—

(a)the scheme member marries after having received benefits under the scheme, or

(b)the widow or widower of the scheme member remarries or lives together as husband and wife with another person to whom he or she is not married after having received benefits under the scheme, or

(c)the widow or widower of the scheme member is living together as husband and wife with another person to whom he or she is not married at the time of the member’s death.