Paragraph 4 Amendments to Part II of the principal Order

Article 3B shall be amended as follows—

(1)

in paragraph (3) for “widow or widower's” substitute “surviving spouse’s or surviving civil partner's”;

(2)

in paragraph (5)—

(a)

for “elderly widows and unmarried dependants who lived as wives” substitute “elderly surviving spouses, surviving civil partners, dependants who lived as spouses and dependants who lived as civil partners”;

(b)

for “pensions for widows” substitute “pensions for surviving spouses and surviving civil partners”; and

(c)

for “unmarried dependants who lived as spouses” substitute “dependants who lived as spouses or dependants who lived as civil partners”;

(3)

in sub-paragraphs 7(d) and 8(c) for “widow of a member of the armed forces, or to a woman who had lived as the wife” substitute “surviving spouse, surviving civil partner, dependant who lived as the spouse or dependant who lived as the civil partner”; and

(4)

in paragraph 9—

(a)

for “widow or widower's” substitute “surviving spouse’s or surviving civil partner's”; and

(b)

for “an unmarried dependant living as spouse” substitute “a dependant living as a spouse or dependant living as a civil partner”.