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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 12E+W+SState pension: amendments

Part 2 E+W+SAmendments to do with old state pension system

Category C retirement pensions: repeal of spent provisionsE+W+S

78E+W+SThe Contributions and Benefits Act is amended as follows.

Commencement Information

I1Sch. 12 para. 78 in force at 6.4.2016, see s. 56(1)(4)

79E+W+SIn section 63(f)(i) (descriptions of non-contributory benefits), for the words from “payable” to “widows” substitute “ payable in certain cases to a widow whose husband was over pensionable age on 5 July 1948 or to a woman whose marriage to a husband who was over pensionable age on that date was terminated otherwise than by his death ”.

Commencement Information

I2Sch. 12 para. 79 in force at 6.4.2016, see s. 56(1)(4)

80(1)Section 78 (Category C retirement pensions etc) is amended as follows.E+W+S

(2)Omit subsections (1), (2) and (5).

(3)In subsections (7) and (8), omit “Category C or”.

Commencement Information

I3Sch. 12 para. 80 in force at 6.4.2016, see s. 56(1)(4)

81E+W+SIn Part 3 of Schedule 4 —

(a)omit paragraph 6 (rate of Category C retirement pension);

(b)in paragraph 7 (rate of Category D retirement pension), for the text in the second column substitute the amount specified in paragraph 6 as the higher rate for a Category C retirement pension immediately before 6 April 2016.

Commencement Information

I4Sch. 12 para. 81 in force at 6.4.2016, see s. 56(1)(4)

82E+W+SIn section 150A of the Administration Act (annual up-rating), in subsection (10), in the definition of “the specified amounts in the case of Category B, C or D retirement pensions”—

(a)in paragraph (a), omit the final “and”;

(b)in paragraph (b), for “amounts specified in paragraphs 6 and 7” substitute “ amount specified in paragraph 7 ”;

(c)at the end of paragraph (b) insert , and

(c)any amount specified in regulations under section 78(9) of the Contributions and Benefits Act for a Category C retirement pension;.

Commencement Information

I5Sch. 12 para. 82 in force at 6.4.2016, see s. 56(1)(4)

83E+W+SIn Schedule 5 to the Gender Recognition Act 2004 (benefits and pensions) omit paragraph 11 and the heading above it.

Commencement Information

I6Sch. 12 para. 83 in force at 6.4.2016, see s. 56(1)(4)