Widows', surviving civil partners' and children's pensions

Children's pension: beneficiaries.
6
1
A children's pension may be granted if, and be paid so long as and whenever, there are persons for whose benefit it can enure.
2
Subject to the provisions of this section, the persons for whose benefit a children's pension can enure are any such children as are referred to in section four who are for the time being in their period of childhood and full-time education.
3
A children's pension cannot enure for the benefit of any person conceived or adopted by the deceased after the end of his service as a resident magistrate.
4
A children's pension cannot enure for the benefit of a ... person who at the time of the death of the deceased was married or a person who at the time of the death of the deceased was a civil partner and if, after the death of the deceased, a ... person marries or a person forms a civil partnership, she or he shall thereupon cease to be a person for whose benefit a children's pension can enure.
5
A children's pension cannot enure for the benefit of any children of a resident magistrate who, by virtue of paragraph (c) of sub-section (5) of section nine, is not required to make any contribution towards the cost of the liabilities assumed under this Act for the benefit of his widow and children.
Mod., 1966 c. 27 (NI)
SI 2005/3325
SI 2005/3325
Word in s. 6(4) omitted (13.1.2020) by virtue of The Marriage (Same-sex Couples) and Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1514), regs. 1(2), 56(4) (with regs. 6-9, 56(5))