Paragraph 107 National Health Service Pension Scheme Regulations 1995

(1)

The National Health Service Pension Scheme Regulations 1995^f1 are amended as follows.

(2)

In regulation A2^f2, in the definition of “marriage”, at the end insert “, and are to be construed in accordance with regulation A4”.

(3)

In regulation A4^f3—

(a)

for the heading substitute “Treatment of same sex marriages and opposite sex civil partnerships”;

(b)

after paragraph (5) insert—

“(5A)
Where a female member is in a civil partnership with a man, for the purposes of these Regulations—

(a)
the civil partnership is to be treated as a marriage;

(b)
the man is accordingly to be treated as the husband (or, if the member is deceased, widower) of the member; and

(c)
any related reference, however expressed, to marriage or civil partnership, or the parties to either, is to be read accordingly.”.

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Footnotes

f1: S.I. 1995/300.
f2: Regulation A2 was amended by S.I. 2014/78. There are other amendments not relevant to this instrument.
f3: Regulation A4 was inserted by S.I. 2014/78, and amended by S.I. 2014/3061. There are other amendments not relevant to this instrument.