{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-2015-act-commencement-no-5-order-northern-ireland-2017/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-2015-act-commencement-no-5-order-northern-ireland-2017/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2017/44",
  "legislation_title": "The Pensions (2015 Act) (Commencement No. 5) Order (Northern Ireland) 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-2015-act-commencement-no-5-order-northern-ireland-2017",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Commencement for entitlement to bereavement payment and bereavement support payment",
  "text": "(1) Section 30(5) and Schedule 16 do not come into operation in accordance with Article 2(2) for a person to whom this Article applies.\n(2) This Article applies to a person—\n(a) whose spouse or civil partner died in the 12 months before 6th April 2017;\n(b) who would have been entitled to a bereavement payment under section 36 of the Contributions and Benefits Act (bereavement payment) if the person had made a claim for it;\n(c) who has formed a new marriage or civil partnership; and\n(d) whose new spouse or civil partner died—\n(i) on or after 6th April 2017; and\n(ii) within 12 months of the death referred to in sub-paragraph (a).\n(3) Section 30(5) and Schedule 16 come in to operation, to the extent that they are not already in operation, for a person to whom this Article applies—\n(a) at the end of a period of 12 months starting on the day on which the death referred to in paragraph (2)(a) occurred, for the purposes of entitlement to a bereavement payment under section 36 of the Contributions and Benefits Act for the death referred to in paragraph (2)(a); and\n(b) on 6th April 2017, for the purposes of entitlement to bereavement support payment under section 29 (bereavement support payment) for the death referred to in paragraph (2)(d).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2017/44/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:53:07.445843+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."
}