The Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014 and Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2014

Category B retirement pension for widowersS

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10.—(1) Section 51(1ZA) of the 1992 Act(1) (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.

Commencement Information

I1Art. 10 in force at 16.12.2014, see art. 1(2)

(1)

Section 51(1ZA) was inserted by the 2013 Act, Schedule 4(5), paragraph 13.