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Paragraph 52

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

Amend Schedule 7 (industrial injuries benefits) as follows.

(2)

For paragraph 4(3)(a) of Part 1 substitute—

“(a)

a beneficiary is one of two persons who are—

(i)

spouses or civil partners residing together,

(ii)

a man and woman who are not married to each other but are living together as if they were husband and wife, or

(iii)

two people of the same sex who are not civil partners of each other but are living together as if they were civil partners, and”.

(3)

In paragraph 5(2)(a)(ii) of Part 1, after “spouses” insert “ or civil partners ”.

(4)

In Part 1—

(a)

in paragraph 6(1), (3) and (4), after “spouse” (in each place) insert “ or civil partner ”, and

(b)

in paragraph 6(4)(a), after “spouse's” insert “ or civil partner's ”.

(5)

In paragraph 15 of Part 6—

(a)

in sub-paragraph (2), after “remarries” insert “ or forms a civil partnership ”, and

(b)

at the end of sub-paragraph (3), insert “ or is living together with a person of the same sex as if they were civil partners ”.