SCHEDULE 1Amendments 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

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Amend section 28 (ways of giving effect to protected rights) as follows—

a

in subsection (3)(b)7 for “widow or widower” substitute “widow, widower or surviving civil partner”;

b

in subsection (4B)8, for “a married person” substitute “married or a civil partner”;

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in subsection (8), in the definition of “the termination date”—

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for “widow or widower” substitute “widow, widower or surviving civil partner”; and

ii

for “widow or widower's” substitute “widow's, widower’s or surviving civil partner's”.