The Civil Partnership (Contracted-out Occupational and Appropriate Personal Pension Schemes) (Surviving Civil Partners) Order 2005 No. 2050

SCHEDULE 1 Amendments of the Pension Schemes Act 1993 (c. 48) relating to contracted-out occupational and appropriate personal pension schemes, extending those provisions to surviving civil partners

18.  Amend section 87 (general protection principle) as follows—

(a) in subsection (2)(c), for “widow or widower, the widow’s or, as the case may be, the widower's” substitute “widow, widower or surviving civil partner, the widow's, widower’s or surviving civil partner’s (as the case may be)”;

(b) in subsection (3), for “widow or widower” substitute “widow, widower or surviving civil partner”;

(c) in subsections (3)(a) and (4)(d), for “widow’s or widower's” substitute “widow's, widower’s or surviving civil partner's”.