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

PART 2 Amendment of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992
8 In section 125(1) (furnishing of addresses for maintenance proceedings, etc.)—
(a) for “man or woman” (in each place where it occurs) there shall be substituted “person”;
(b) in paragraph (a) for “man’s wife or former wife, or the woman’s husband or former husband” there shall be substituted “person’s spouse, former spouse, civil partner or former civil partner”; and
(c) for paragraph (b) there shall be substituted 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.”

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