The Civil Partnership (Pensions and Benefit Payments) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order 2005 No. 2053

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

PART 3 Amendments of the Pension Schemes Act 1993 (c. 48)

15.  In section 129 (overriding requirements), in subsection (3)(e)—

(a) for “widow’s or widower's” substitute “widow's, widower’s or surviving civil partner's”; and

(b) for “widow or widower” (in each place) substitute “widow, widower or surviving civil partner”.