F1The Treasury may make rules for securing that, in such circumstances and subject to such conditions as to proof of good health and other matters as may be specified in the rules, a retired resident magistrate under the age of seventy who has retired from office (otherwise than on the ground of ill-health) after the passing of this Act, and who has married F2or formed a civil partnership since his retirement shall, subject to sub-section (2), be allowed to surrender, as from the date of his marriage F3or of the formation of the civil partnership , in return for the benefits allowed under the rules such part of his personal pension as may be specified in the rules, and for enablingF1 the Treasury to grant to his F4spouse or civil partner a pension of such value as, according to tables prepared from time to time byF1 the Treasury, is actuarially equivalent, at that date, to the value of that part of the personal pension which is surrendered.

The part of a personal pension surrendered by a person under this section, together with any part thereof surrendered under section twelve, shall not exceed one-third of that pension.

Sub-sections (2) and (3) of section twelve, so far as they apply to surrenders made for the benefit of F5spouses and civil partners and pensions granted to F5spouses and civil partners , shall apply also to surrenders under this section and pensions granted by virtue thereof, but as if any reference to the date of retirement was a reference to the date of the marriage F6or of the formation of the civil partnership .

Rules made under this section shall be subject to negative resolution.