{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-civil-partnership-judicial-pensions-and-church-pensions-etc-order-2005/article-55",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2005/0110734963",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Partnership (Judicial Pensions and Church Pensions, etc.) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-civil-partnership-judicial-pensions-and-church-pensions-etc-order-2005",
  "path": "article/55",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "55",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 18A (widowers’ pensions) is amended as follows.\n(2) In the side-note, after “Widowers’” insert “and surviving civil partners’”.\n(3) In subsection (1)—\n(a) after “female person” insert “who has, or has had, a husband or civil partner”, and\n(b) after “male person” insert “who has, or has had, a wife or civil partner”.\n(4) After that subsection insert—\n“(2A) The transitional provisions in Part 5 of Schedule 2 to this Act shall have effect in relation to surviving civil partners’ pensions.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2005/0110734963/article/55",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:21:59.121068+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."
}