43. Amend regulation 11 (conditions on which liability to provide pensions under a relevant scheme may be discharged) as follows—
(a)in paragraph (3)—
(i)in sub-paragraphs (a) and (b), for “widow or widower” substitute “widow, widower or surviving civil partner”;
(ii)in sub-paragraph (b), omit “and (c)”;
(b)for paragraph (4) substitute the following paragraph—
“(4) Subject to paragraph (7), the circumstances referred to in paragraph (3) are—
(a)the beneficiary marries or forms a civil partnership after having received benefits under the policy or contract;
(b)the widow, widower or surviving civil partner of the beneficiary—
(i)remarries or, as the case may be, marries;
(ii)forms a civil partnership or, as the case may be, forms a subsequent civil partnership;
(iii)lives together as husband and wife with another person to whom he or she is not married;
(iv)lives together with a person of the same sex as if they were civil partners; or
(v)at the time of the beneficiary’s death—
(a)is living together as husband and wife with another person to whom he or she is not married; or
(b)is living together with a person of the same sex as if they were civil partners.”;
(c)after paragraph (6), add the following paragraph—
“(7) Sub-paragraphs (b)(ii), (iv) and (v)(b) of paragraph (4) do not apply where the beneficiary dies before 5th December 2005.”