SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 12STATE PENSION: AMENDMENTS

PART 2AMENDMENTS TO DO WITH OLD STATE PENSION SYSTEM

Category C retirement pensions: repeal of spent provisions

I165

The Contributions and Benefits Act is amended as follows.

I266

In section 63(f)(i) (descriptions of non-contributory benefits), for the words from “payable” to “widows” substitute “ payable in certain cases to a widow whose husband was over pensionable age on 5 July 1948 or to a woman whose marriage to a husband who was over pensionable age on that date was terminated otherwise than by his death ”.

I367

1

Section 78 (Category C retirement pensions etc.) is amended as follows.

2

Omit subsections (1), (2) and (5).

3

In subsections (7) and (8), omit “Category C or”.

I468

In Part 3 of Schedule 4—

a

omit paragraph 6 (rate of Category C retirement pension);

b

in paragraph 7 (rate of Category D retirement pension), for the text in the second column substitute the amount specified in paragraph 6 as the higher rate for a Category C retirement pension immediately before 6 April 2016.