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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-civil-partnership-miscellaneous-and-consequential-provisions-order-2005/schedule-2/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2005/0110734254",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Partnership (Miscellaneous and Consequential Provisions) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-civil-partnership-miscellaneous-and-consequential-provisions-order-2005",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In the Occupational Pension Schemes (Contracting-out) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996—\n(a) in paragraphs (4) and (5) of regulation 37 (circumstances in which the age-related payments are not to be paid)—\n(i) for “widow or widower” substitute “widow, widower or surviving civil partner”; and\n(ii) for “died unmarried” substitute “was not married or a civil partner at the time of his or her death”;\n(b) in regulation 51 (contributions equivalent premiums)—\n(i) in paragraph (1B)(b), after “spouse” insert “or civil partner”;\n(ii) in paragraph (2)(c), for “widow’s or widower’s” substitute “widow’s, widower’s or surviving civil partner’s”;\n(c) in paragraph (5) of regulation 54 (refund of a contributions equivalent premium), for “widow or widower” (twice) substitute “widow, widower or surviving civil partner”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1996 No.493; relevant amending regulations are S.I. 2002/681."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Paragraph (1B) was inserted by S.I. 2002/681."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2005/0110734254/schedule/2/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:22:04.484076+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."
}