Regulation 69B Conversion of guaranteed minimum pensions into other benefits: survivors’ benefitsF1

an earner’s pre-conversion benefits include a guaranteed minimum pension, and

the scheme before conversion provided that—

for widows, widowers and surviving civil partners, any period mentioned in section 17(4A)(a) and (b) of the 1993 Act (minimum pensions for widows and widowers),

for widows, widowers and surviving civil partners whose entitlement by virtue of the earner’s contributions to a widowed parent’s allowance or bereavement allowance has come to an end at a time after the widow, widower or surviving civil partner attained the age of 45, so much of the period beginning with the time when that entitlement came to an end as neither—

for F5widows whose spouse was a man, any period for which a widowed mother’s allowance or widow’s pension is payable to the widow by virtue of the earner’s contributions, and

for F6widowers, widows whose spouse was a woman and surviving civil partners, any period which is, by virtue of regulation 58, a prescribed period for the purposes of section 17(6) of the 1993 Act.

paragraph (3)(b)(i) so far as it relates to the living together of two people of the same sex;

paragraph (3)(b)(ii)(aa) so far as it relates to a marriage involving two people of the same sex; and

paragraph (3)(b)(ii)(bb).