{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-social-security-inherited-serps-amendments-relating-to-civil-partnership-regulations-2005/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-social-security-inherited-serps-amendments-relating-to-civil-partnership-regulations-2005/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2005/0110734262",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Inherited SERPS) (Amendments relating to Civil Partnership) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-social-security-inherited-serps-amendments-relating-to-civil-partnership-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Social Security (Inherited SERPS) Regulations 2001",
  "text": "(1) The Social Security (Inherited SERPS) Regulations 2001 shall be amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 2 (modification of Part II of the Contributions and Benefits Act)—\n(a) in paragraph (1)—\n(i) after “becomes widowed” insert “or a surviving civil partner”;\n(ii) for “widow or widower” substitute “widow, widower or surviving civil partner”; and\n(iii) after “spouse” insert “or civil partner”;\n(b) in paragraph (2), for “widow or widower” substitute “widow, widower or surviving civil partner”;\n(c) in paragraph (3)(f), after “spouse” insert “or civil partner”; and\n(d) in paragraph (4), after “widowed person’s” insert “or surviving civil partner’s”.\n(3) In the Schedule—\n(a) in the heading, after “widowed person’s” insert “or surviving civil partner’s”; and\n(b) in column 1 (description of person), for “widow or widower” (in each place) substitute “widow, widower or surviving civil partner”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2001/1085. This instrument was amended by S.I. 2005/811."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2005/0110734262/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:22:03.687552+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."
}