# The Civil Partnership (Pensions, Social Security and Child Support) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order 2005, Paragraph 10: Social Security (Widow's Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Regulations 1979


(1) Amend the Social Security (Widow's Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Regulations 1979 as follows.
(2) In regulation 7A (Category B retirement pension for surviving spouses by virtue of deceased spouse's contributions) —
(a) in the heading preceding it—
(i) after “surviving spouses” insert “ and surviving civil partners ”;
(ii) after “deceased spouse's” insert “ or deceased civil partner's ”;
(b) in paragraph (2)(e) after “remarried” insert “ or formed a civil partnership ”;
(c) in paragraph (3)(a) after “spouse” insert “ or civil partner ”.
(3) In regulation 8 (substitution of former spouse's contribution record to give entitlement to a Category A retirement pension)—
(a) in the heading preceding it, after “former spouse's” insert “ or former civil partner's ”;
(b) in paragraph (1)—
(i) in sub-paragraph (a) after “did not remarry” insert “ or, as the case may be, form a civil partnership ”;
(ii) after sub-paragraph (a) insert the following sub-paragraph—
“(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;”
(iii) in sub-paragraph (b) —
(aa) after “attaining pensionable age” insert “ or whose civil partner died on or after the man or woman had attained that age ”;
(bb) after “former spouse” insert “ or former civil partner ”;
(iv) in sub-paragraph (c)—
(aa) after “last marriage” insert “ or last civil partnership ”;
(bb) after “his spouse” insert “ or, as the case may be, his civil partner ”;
(c) in paragraph (2)—
(i) after “marriage” insert “ or civil partnership ”;
(ii) after “former spouse” insert “ or former civil partner ”;
(d) in paragraph (3)—
(i) after “former spouse” insert “ or former civil partner ”;
(ii) after “marriage” insert “ or civil partnership ”;
(e) in paragraph (6) after “his spouse's” insert “ or his civil partner's ”.
(4) In regulation 16ZA (provision in relation to entitlement to child benefit for the purposes of a widowed parent's allowance) —
(a) in paragraph (1)—
(i) after “(“the surviving spouse”)” insert “ or whose civil partner has died (“surviving civil partner”) ”;
(ii) in sub-paragraph (b) after “surviving spouse” insert “ or surviving civil partner ”;
(b) in paragraph (2)—
(i) after “a surviving spouse” insert “ or surviving civil partner ”;
(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 ”;
(iii) after “with the deceased spouse” insert “ or, as the case may be, the deceased civil partner ”;
(iv) after “the deceased spouse” insert “ or deceased civil partner ”;
(v) in sub-paragraph (a)—
(aa) after “spouse” (in each place) insert “ or civil partner ”;
(bb) after “marriage” insert “ or, as the case may be, by the formation of a civil partnership ”;
(cc) after “that previous spouse's” insert “ or previous civil partner's ”;
(vi) in sub-paragraph (b) after “spouse” (in each place) insert “ or civil partner ”.
(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)—
(a) in the heading preceding it, after “former spouse's” insert “ or former civil partner's ”;
(b) in paragraph 1—
(i) after “the former spouse's” (in each place) insert “ or former civil partner's ”;
(ii) after “the marriage” (in each place) insert “ or, as the case may be, the civil partnership ”;
(c) in paragraph 2 after “marriage” (in each place) insert “ or civil partnership ”;
(d) in paragraph 3—
(i) after “in which the marriage took place” (in each place) insert “ or the civil partnership was formed ”;
(ii) for “in which the marriage terminated” (in each place) substitute “ in which the marriage or civil partnership terminated ”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2877/schedule/3/paragraph/10 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-pensions-social-security-and-child-support-consequential-etc-provisions-order-2005/schedule-3/paragraph-10
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