Amendment of the Social Security (Widow’s Benefit and Retirement Pensions) RegulationsN.I.
2.—(1) The Social Security (Widow’s Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1979(1) shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).
(2) In regulation 1(2) (interpretation) after the definition of “bereavement allowance”(2) there shall be inserted the following definition—
““civil partner” in relation to any person who has been in a civil partnership more than once means the last civil partner;”.
(3) In regulation 4(1)(d)(ii)(3) (days to be treated as days of increment) after “neither married to,” there shall be inserted “or in a civil partnership with,”.
Commencement Information
I1Reg. 2 in operation at 5.12.2005, see reg. 1(1)
S.R. 1979 No. 243; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 2001 No. 108 and S.R. 2005 No. 120
The definition of “bereavement allowance” was inserted by regulation 8(2)(b) of S.R. 2001 No. 108
Sub-paragraph (d) was inserted by regulation 4(4)(b)(ii) of S.R. 2005 No. 120