Social Security (Consequential Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Act 1992

This Act

15 In Schedule 3 to this Act—

(a) in the heading before paragraph 18 for the words “provision derived from” there shall be substituted the words “provisions derived from paragraph 18 of Schedule 3 to former Consequential Provisions Act, and”; and

(b) the following paragraph shall be inserted after that heading—

“17A In determining a woman’s right—

(a) to a pension or allowance in respect of a deceased person under section 67, 68, 71, 72 or 73 of the 1975 Act; or

(b) to a pension in respect of a deceased person under paragraph 15 or 16 of Schedule 7 to the Contributions and Benefits Act,

for any period after 25th February 1962, or her right on her re-marriage after that date to a gratuity under section 67 of the 1975 Act, her cohabitation with a man at any time after the deceased’s death but before that date shall be disregarded; but a right to benefit arising by virtue of this paragraph shall not, under Schedule 9 to that Act or Schedule 7 to the Contributions and Benefits Act, affect the right of any other persons to benefit awarded before that date.”.