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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-pensions-act-2004-and-the-equality-act-2010-amendment-equal-treatment-by-occupational-pension-schemes-regulations-2023/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-pensions-act-2004-and-the-equality-act-2010-amendment-equal-treatment-by-occupational-pension-schemes-regulations-2023/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2023/9780348251777",
  "legislation_title": "The Pensions Act 2004 and the Equality Act 2010 (Amendment) (Equal Treatment by Occupational Pension Schemes) Regulations 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-pensions-act-2004-and-the-equality-act-2010-amendment-equal-treatment-by-occupational-pension-schemes-regulations-2023",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of Schedule 9 (work: exceptions) to the Equality Act 2010",
  "text": "After sub-paragraph (1B) of paragraph 18 (benefits dependent on marital status, etc.) of Schedule 9 to the Equality Act 2010 insert—\n“(1C) Sub-paragraph (1) does not apply in relation to access to a benefit payable under an occupational pension scheme to the surviving spouse or surviving civil partner of a deceased member or deceased pension credit member of the scheme.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph 18 was amended by paragraph 17(2) and (3) of Schedule 4 to the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (c. 30)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2023/9780348251777/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:42:49.400491+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."
}