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—
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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.