{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-act-northern-ireland-1951/section-6A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-act-northern-ireland-1951/section-6A.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1951/20",
  "legislation_title": "Judicial Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 1951",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-act-northern-ireland-1951",
  "path": "section/6A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6A",
  "heading": "Widowers' and surviving civil partners pensions .",
  "text": "(1) Section 6 shall have effect in relation to the death of a female person who has, or has had, a husband or civil partner as it has effect in relation to the death of a male person who has, or has had, a wife or civil partner but as if—\n(a) for the words “widow”, “widow's pension” and “wife” there were substituted “ widower ”, “ “widower's pension ” and “ husband ”;\n(b) for the words “his” and “him” there were substituted “ her ”; and\n(c) for the word “he” there were substituted “ she ”.\n(2) The transitional provisions set out in the Fourth Schedule to this Act shall have effect in relation to widowers' pensions.\n(3) The transitional provisions set out in Schedule 4A shall have effect in relation to surviving civil partners' pensions.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1991 NI 24"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "SI 2005/3325"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1951/20/section/6A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:33:53.099794+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."
}