{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-pensions-and-benefit-payments-consequential-etc-provisions-order-northern-ireland-2005/schedule/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-pensions-and-benefit-payments-consequential-etc-provisions-order-northern-ireland-2005/schedule/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2005/434",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Partnership (Pensions and Benefit Payments) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-pensions-and-benefit-payments-consequential-etc-provisions-order-northern-ireland-2005",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In section 48C(4) (Category B retirement pension: general), after “spouse” there shall be inserted “or civil partner”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 2 in operation at 5.12.2005, see art. 1(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 48C was substituted by paragraph 3(1) of Schedule 2 to the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995. Subsection (4) was amended by paragraph 6 of Schedule 8 and paragraph 11 of Schedule 9 to the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 and section 33(12) of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000 (c. 4 (N.I.))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2005/434/schedule/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:50:33.394478+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}