20. Amend regulation 59 (statutory references to persons entitled to guaranteed minimum pensions – application to widowers) as follows—
(a)in the heading preceding it, at the end add “and surviving civil partners”;
(b)after “when the earner died” insert “or by virtue of being the surviving civil partner of an earner only in the case where the earner and the surviving civil partner were both over pensionable age when the earner died”.