General and financial

Allocation by certain retired resident magistrates of part of their pensions to their wives.
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The 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 or formed a civil partnership since his retirement shall, subject to sub-section (2), be allowed to surrender, as from the date of his marriage or 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 enabling the Treasury to grant to his spouse or civil partner a pension of such value as, according to tables prepared from time to time by the Treasury, is actuarially equivalent, at that date, to the value of that part of the personal pension which is surrendered.
2
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.
3
Sub-sections (2) and (3) of section twelve, so far as they apply to surrenders made for the benefit of spouses and civil partners and pensions granted to spouses 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 or of the formation of the civil partnership .
4
Rules made under this section shall be subject to negative resolution.
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Words in s. 13(1) inserted (13.1.2020) by The Marriage (Same-sex Couples) and Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1514), regs. 1(2), 56(7)(a)(i) (with regs. 6-9)
Words in s. 13(1) inserted (13.1.2020) by The Marriage (Same-sex Couples) and Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1514), regs. 1(2), 56(7)(a)(ii) (with regs. 6-9)
Words in s. 13(1) substituted (13.1.2020) by The Marriage (Same-sex Couples) and Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1514), regs. 1(2), 56(7)(a)(iii) (with regs. 6-9)
Words in s. 13(3) substituted (13.1.2020) by The Marriage (Same-sex Couples) and Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1514), regs. 1(2), 56(7)(b)(i) (with regs. 6-9)
Words in s. 13(3) inserted (13.1.2020) by The Marriage (Same-sex Couples) and Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1514), regs. 1(2), 56(7)(b)(ii) (with regs. 6-9)