Paragraph 34 Armed Forces Pension Scheme Order 2005I1

In Part E of Schedule 1 to the Armed Forces Pension Scheme Order 2005^f1 (death benefits), for rule E.2(3)(b) substitute—

“(b)

the person and the member were not prevented from—

(i)

marrying, or prior to the date on which section 1 of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 came fully into force would not have been so prevented apart from both being of the same sex, or

(ii)

forming a civil partnership, or would not have been so prevented apart from being of the opposite sex to each other, and”.