SCHEDULE 6CONSEQUENTIAL MODIFICATIONS TO SECONDARY LEGISLATION

Occupational Pension Schemes (Discharge of Liability) Regulations 1997I116

1

The Occupational Pension Schemes (Discharge of Liability) Regulations 1997162 are amended as follows.

2

In regulation 1 (citation, commencement and interpretation), omit paragraph (1A).

3

In regulation 11 (conditions on which liability to provide pensions under a relevant scheme may be discharged)—

a

in paragraph (4)(b)—

i

for paragraphs (iii) and (iv) substitute—

iii

lives together as a married couple with another person whom he or she is not married to or in a civil partnership with; or

ii

in paragraph (v), for sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) substitute “is living together as a married couple with another person whom he or she is not married to or in a civil partnership with.”, and

b

for paragraph (7) substitute—

7

The following provisions do not apply where the beneficiary died before 5th December 2005—

a

paragraph (4)(b)(i) so far as it relates to a marriage or remarriage involving two people of the same sex;

b

paragraph (4)(b)(ii); and

c

paragraphs (iii) and (v) of paragraph (4)(b) so far as they relate to the living together of two people of the same sex.