SCHEDULE 1 Amendments of the Pension Schemes Act relating to contracted-out occupational and appropriate personal pension schemes, extending those provisions to surviving civil partners

17.  In section 56(5)(1) (effect of payment of premium on rights) for “widow or widower” there shall be substituted “widow, widower or surviving civil partner”.

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Subsection (5) was amended by paragraph 46(c) of Schedule 3 to the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995