The Civil Partnership (Contracted-out Occupational and Appropriate Personal Pension Schemes) (Surviving Civil Partners) Order 2005 No. 2050

SCHEDULE 2 Amendments of provisions of Regulations relating to contracted-out occupational and appropriate personal pension schemes, extending those provisions to surviving civil partners

PART 9 The Personal Pension Schemes (Appropriate Schemes) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/470)

36.  In regulation 6A (provision of information for purposes of contracting-out)(1), for “widow or widower” substitute “widow, widower or surviving civil partner”.

37.  In regulation 12 (circumstances in which minimum contributions are not to be paid), in paragraphs (6), (7) and (8)(2)

(a) for “widow or widower” substitute “widow, widower or surviving civil partner”;

(b) after “unmarried” insert “or was not a civil partner at the time of his or her death”.

(1)

Regulation 6A was inserted by S.I. 2002/681.

(2)

Paragraphs (6), (7) and (8) were amended by virtue of Schedule 2 to the Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) Act 1999 (c. 2).