{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-pensions-amendment-regulations-2006/regulation-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-pensions-amendment-regulations-2006/regulation-26.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/920",
  "legislation_title": "The Parliamentary Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-pensions-amendment-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/26",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Pension sharing",
  "text": "(1) In Schedule 3 to the AVC Regulations (pension sharing on divorce or nullity: transfers out of pension credits) after paragraph 1 insert—\n“1A The provisions of this Schedule—\n(a) apply to a surviving civil partner as they apply to a surviving spouse,\n(b) apply to a civil partner as they apply to a spouse, and\n(c) apply to a civil partnership as they apply to a marriage.”.\n(2) In paragraph 4 of that Schedule (death of ex-spouse before liability in respect of pension credit is discharged)—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (3) after “if”, in the second place where it occurs, insert “the ex-spouse has not reached the age of 75 at the date of death and”, and\n(b) in sub-paragraph (4) after “sub-paragraph (3)” insert “and the ex-spouse has not reached the age of 75 at the date of death”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Schedule 3 was inserted by paragraph 7 of Schedule 3 to S.I. 2001/2649."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/920/regulation/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:33:07.580715+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."
}