PART 4STATE PENSIONS
Category B retirement pension for widowersI110
1
Section 51(1ZA) of the 1992 Act11 (category B retirement pension for widowers) does not confer a right to a Category B retirement pension on a person if the person attains pensionable age on or after 6th April 2010.
2
Section 51(1ZA) of the 1992 Act does not confer a right to a Category B retirement pension on a woman by reason of her marriage to another woman (“the spouse”) if—
a
the spouse was, at the time of her death, a woman by virtue of a full gender recognition certificate having been issued under the 2004 Act; and
b
the marriage subsisted before the time when that certificate was issued.