The Civil Partnership (Pensions and Benefit Payments) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order 2005 No. 2053

SCHEDULE Amendments of provisions of Acts relating to pensions and benefit payments, extending those provisions to civil partners and surviving civil partners

PART 2 Amendments of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c. 5)

6.—(1) Amend section 133 (furnishing of addresses for maintenance proceedings, etc.) as follows.

(2) For “man or woman” (in each place) substitute “person”.

(3) In paragraph (a), for “man’s wife or former wife, or the woman’s husband or former husband” substitute “person’s spouse, former spouse, civil partner or former civil partner”.

(4) For paragraph (b) substitute the following paragraph—

“(b) for the maintenance or education of any child of the person, or of any child of the person’s spouse, former spouse, civil partner or former civil partner.”.