Parliamentary Pensions etc. Act 1984

8 Widowers' pensions

(1) After section 13 of the 1972 Act (pensions for widows) there shall be inserted the following section: —

“13A Pensions for widowers.

(1) Subject to the provisions applied by subsection (2) of this section, the widower of a woman who has died after the passing of the Parliamentary Pensions etc. Act 1984 shall be entitled to receive a pension under this section, whether or not his late wife was entitled at the time of her death to receive a pension under section 7 or section 9 of this Act, if—

(a) she had been a Member of the House of Commons at any time after the passing of that Act; or

(b) she was a participant under section 2 of this Act in respect of one or more periods of tenure of a qualifying office and had held such an office at any time after the passing of that Act.

(2) Subsections (2) to (5) of section 13 of this Act shall apply for the purposes of this section with the necessary modifications.”.

(2) In section 14 of the 1972 Act (pensions for certain widowers), after subsection (5) there shall be inserted the following subsection—

“(6) This section shall not apply in the case of a widower who is entitled to receive a pension under section 13A of this Act”.

(3) Accordingly—

(a) in sections 15(4) and 17(1) of the 1972 Act (which contain references to sections 13 and 14 of that Act), after the words " section 13 " there shall be inserted the words " , section 13A " ;

(b) in section 15(6) of that Act (interpretation), after the words " applied by " there shall be inserted the words " section 13A or " ;

(c) subsection (9) of section 7 of the 1978 Act (which applies to widowers' pensions certain provisions made in relation to widows' pensions) shall have effect, in relation to any case where a person is entitled to receive a pension under section 13A of the 1972 Act, as if for the words from " section 14 of that Act" onwards there were substituted the words " section 13A of that Act and the reference to subsections (3) to (5) of section 13 of that Act shall be read as a reference to those subsections as applied by section 13A(2) of that Act "; and

(d) in subsection (8) of section 12 of the 1978 Act (maximum not to apply in case of widows' and widowers’ pensions) for the words " section 14 " and " or 14 " there shall be substituted, respectively, the words " section 13A or 14 " and the words ", 13A or 14 ".