PART 6 U.K.Amendments: Pensions and Social Security: Primary Legislation

Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 N.I.

73.  In paragraph 4 of Schedule 6 to the Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015(1)—

(a) the existing text becomes sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 4, and

(b) after that sub-paragraph insert—

“(2) For the purposes of this paragraph, a civil partnership is not to be treated as having come to an end—

(a) by reason of its having been—

(i) converted into a marriage under section 9 of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013;

(ii) changed into a marriage under the Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977;

(iii) changed into a marriage in accordance with provision made under section 10 of the Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014; or

(iv) changed into a marriage under Part 5 of the Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014 and Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2014; or

(b) by reason of a marriage which has been treated in Northern Ireland as a civil partnership ceasing to be so treated with effect from 13 January 2020.”.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 73 in force at 13.1.2020, see reg. 1(2)

(1)

2015 c.5 (N.I.).