{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-act-northern-ireland-1951/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-act-northern-ireland-1951/section-7.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/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Widows', widowers' and surviving civil partners' pensions",
  "text": "(1) No widow's, widower's or surviving civil partner's pension may be granted if the marriage or formation of the civil partnership with the deceased took place after he or she retired from relevant service.\n(1A) A surviving civil partner’s pension may not be granted in respect of a person’s service if—\n(a) the person retired from relevant service before 13th January 2020, and\n(b) power to grant the pension relies on the Marriage (Same-sex Couples) and Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2019.\n(2) A widow's, widower's or surviving civil partner's pension shall come to an end on the death of the widow, widower or surviving civil partner.\n(3) Where a widow's, widower's or surviving civil partner's pension is payable the Treasury may, on or at any time after\n(a) the remarriage of, or formation of a civil partnership by, the widow or widower, or\n(b) the formation of a subsequent civil partnership by, or the marriage of, the surviving civil partner,\ndirect that it shall cease to be payable.\n(4) Where such a direction has been given the Treasury may at any time direct that payment of the pension is to be resumed.\n(5) The annual amount of a widow's, widower's or surviving civil partner's pension may be one half of the annual amount of the personal pension.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1991 NI 24"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "SI 2005/3325"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 7(1A) inserted (13.1.2020) by The Marriage (Same-sex Couples) and Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1514), regs. 1(2), 54(2) (with regs. 6-9)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1951/20/section/7",
    "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."
}