Paragraph 6

in paragraph (1), after “spouse”, insert “or civil partner”; and

for paragraph (3), substitute—

“(3)

Where this rule applies—

(a)

the surviving spouse is entitled to an accrued pension calculated in accordance with Part III of Schedule 3; and

(b)

the surviving civil partner is entitled to an accrued pension of such amount as bears to the amount of accrued pension to which he would have been entitled had he been the deceased’s surviving spouse, the same proportion that the deceased’s service after 5 April 1988 bears to the whole of his pensionable service.”.