{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-pensions-social-security-and-child-support-consequential-etc-provisions-order-2005/schedule-3/paragraph-10",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2877",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Partnership (Pensions, Social Security and Child Support) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-pensions-social-security-and-child-support-consequential-etc-provisions-order-2005",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/10",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Social Security (Widow's Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Regulations 1979",
  "text": "(1) Amend the Social Security (Widow's Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Regulations 1979 as follows.\n(2) In regulation 7A (Category B retirement pension for surviving spouses by virtue of deceased spouse's contributions) —\n(a) in the heading preceding it—\n(i) after “surviving spouses” insert “ and surviving civil partners ”;\n(ii) after “deceased spouse's” insert “ or deceased civil partner's ”;\n(b) in paragraph (2)(e) after “remarried” insert “ or formed a civil partnership ”;\n(c) in paragraph (3)(a) after “spouse” insert “ or civil partner ”.\n(3) In regulation 8 (substitution of former spouse's contribution record to give entitlement to a Category A retirement pension)—\n(a) in the heading preceding it, after “former spouse's” insert “ or former civil partner's ”;\n(b) in paragraph (1)—\n(i) in sub-paragraph (a) after “did not remarry” insert “ or, as the case may be, form a civil partnership ”;\n(ii) after sub-paragraph (a) insert the following sub-paragraph—\n“(aa) any person whose last civil partnership terminated before he attained pensionable age and who did not form a subsequent civil partnership or, as the case may be, marry before that date;”\n(iii) in sub-paragraph (b) —\n(aa) after “attaining pensionable age” insert “ or whose civil partner died on or after the man or woman had attained that age ”;\n(bb) after “former spouse” insert “ or former civil partner ”;\n(iv) in sub-paragraph (c)—\n(aa) after “last marriage” insert “ or last civil partnership ”;\n(bb) after “his spouse” insert “ or, as the case may be, his civil partner ”;\n(c) in paragraph (2)—\n(i) after “marriage” insert “ or civil partnership ”;\n(ii) after “former spouse” insert “ or former civil partner ”;\n(d) in paragraph (3)—\n(i) after “former spouse” insert “ or former civil partner ”;\n(ii) after “marriage” insert “ or civil partnership ”;\n(e) in paragraph (6) after “his spouse's” insert “ or his civil partner's ”.\n(4) In regulation 16ZA (provision in relation to entitlement to child benefit for the purposes of a widowed parent's allowance) —\n(a) in paragraph (1)—\n(i) after “(“the surviving spouse”)” insert “ or whose civil partner has died (“surviving civil partner”) ”;\n(ii) in sub-paragraph (b) after “surviving spouse” insert “ or surviving civil partner ”;\n(b) in paragraph (2)—\n(i) after “a surviving spouse” insert “ or surviving civil partner ”;\n(ii) after “more than once married” insert “ , has formed more than one civil partnership, or who has been both married and formed a civil partnership ”;\n(iii) after “with the deceased spouse” insert “ or, as the case may be, the deceased civil partner ”;\n(iv) after “the deceased spouse” insert “ or deceased civil partner ”;\n(v) in sub-paragraph (a)—\n(aa) after “spouse” (in each place) insert “ or civil partner ”;\n(bb) after “marriage” insert “ or, as the case may be, by the formation of a civil partnership ”;\n(cc) after “that previous spouse's” insert “ or previous civil partner's ”;\n(vi) in sub-paragraph (b) after “spouse” (in each place) insert “ or civil partner ”.\n(5) In Schedule 1 (method of treating former spouse's contributions as those of the beneficiary so as to entitle him to a Category A retirement pension)—\n(a) in the heading preceding it, after “former spouse's” insert “ or former civil partner's ”;\n(b) in paragraph 1—\n(i) after “the former spouse's” (in each place) insert “ or former civil partner's ”;\n(ii) after “the marriage” (in each place) insert “ or, as the case may be, the civil partnership ”;\n(c) in paragraph 2 after “marriage” (in each place) insert “ or civil partnership ”;\n(d) in paragraph 3—\n(i) after “in which the marriage took place” (in each place) insert “ or the civil partnership was formed ”;\n(ii) for “in which the marriage terminated” (in each place) substitute “ in which the marriage or civil partnership terminated ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 1979/642."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "Regulation 7A was inserted by S.I. 2000/1483."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "Sub-paragraph (b) was substituted by S.I. 2000/1483."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "Regulation 16ZA was inserted by S.I. 2001/1235."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2877/schedule/3/paragraph/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:48:44.654045+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."
}