{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-same-sex-couples-act-2013-consequential-and-contrary-provisions-and-scotland-order-2014/schedule-3/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-same-sex-couples-act-2013-consequential-and-contrary-provisions-and-scotland-order-2014/schedule-3/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/560",
  "legislation_title": "The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (Consequential and Contrary Provisions and Scotland) Order 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-same-sex-couples-act-2013-consequential-and-contrary-provisions-and-scotland-order-2014",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Social Security Pensions Act 1975",
  "text": "(1) Section 59 of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 (increase of official pensions) is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (5ZB)—\n(a) in paragraph (a) for “widow’s pension” substitute “pension payable to a woman in respect of the services of her deceased male spouse”, and\n(b) in paragraph (b)—\n(i) for a “widower’s” substitute “any other surviving spouse’s”, and\n(ii) “for wife’s” substitute “spouse’s”.\n(3) In subsection (5ZC)—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) in paragraph (b), before “surviving civil partner’s” insert “pension due to a surviving spouse who was married to someone of the same sex and a”.\n(4) In subsection (7), omit the definition of “widower’s pension”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 2(3)(a) omitted (7.12.2020) by virtue of The Marriage and Civil Partnership (Northern Ireland) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1143), regs. 1(2), 36(5)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 2 in force at 13.3.2014, see art. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The definition of “widower’s pension” in subsection (7) was inserted by the Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1990, section 5(2)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/560/schedule/3/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:24:05.422209+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."
}