{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-parliament-united-kingdom-representatives-pensions-amendment-order-2005/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-parliament-united-kingdom-representatives-pensions-amendment-order-2005/article-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/1924",
  "legislation_title": "The European Parliament (United Kingdom Representatives) Pensions (Amendment) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-parliament-united-kingdom-representatives-pensions-amendment-order-2005",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Widows', widowers' and surviving civil partners' pensions",
  "text": "Article 12 of the Principal Order shall be amended as follows–\n(1) In the heading there shall be substituted for the words “Widows' and widowers'” the words “Widows', widowers' and surviving civil partners'”.\n(2) For paragraph (4) there shall be substituted–\n“(3A) Subject to paragraphs (4) and (5), a pension payable under this article shall continue for life.\n(4) Subject to paragraph (5), a pension payable under this article to a widow, widower or surviving civil partner of a person who ceased to be a participant before 3rd November 2004 shall cease on the date the widow, widower or surviving civil partner marries or forms a civil partnership, provided that the Treasury shall at any time restore the pension if at such time the Managers direct that they are satisfied that the subsequent marriage or civil partnership has been terminated or that there are exceptional reasons for the payment of the pension notwithstanding the subsistence of that marriage or civil partnership.”\n(3) In paragraph (5) after the words “this article” there shall be inserted the words “in respect of a person who ceased to be a participant before 3rd November 2004”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/1924/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:56:06.158847+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."
}