{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2014/schedule-6/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2014/schedule-6/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2014/19",
  "legislation_title": "Pensions Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2014",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) If the woman is married or in a civil partnership on reaching pensionable age but the marriage or civil partnership comes to an end (because of the death of her spouse or civil partner or otherwise)—\n(a) her transitional rate is to be recalculated applying paragraph 3(2), and\n(b) Schedule 2 (up-rating) applies as if the recalculated rate had been the woman's transitional rate on the day on which she reached pensionable age.\n(2) For the purposes of this paragraph—\n(a) a civil partnership is not to be treated as having come to an end by reason of its having been converted into a marriage under Part 3 of the Marriage and Civil Partnership (Northern Ireland) (No. 2) Regulations 2020;\n(b) a civil partnership is not to be treated as having come to an end by reason of its having been converted into a marriage under Part 3 or 4 of the Marriage of Same Sex Couples (Conversion of Civil Partnership) Regulations 2014 where it is a convertible Northern Ireland civil partnership as defined by regulation 2 of those Regulations.\n(3) For the purposes of this paragraph, a marriage is not to be treated as having come to an end by reason of its having been converted into a civil partnership under Part 3, 4 or 5 of the Marriage and Civil Partnership (Northern Ireland) (No. 2) Regulations 2020.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 6 para. 4 renumbered as Sch. 6 para. 4(1) (7.12.2020) by The Marriage and Civil Partnership (Northern Ireland) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1143), regs. 1(2), 47(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 6 para. 4(2)(3) inserted (7.12.2020) by The Marriage and Civil Partnership (Northern Ireland) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1143), regs. 1(2), 47(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 6 para. 4 in force at 6.4.2016, see s. 56(1)(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/19/schedule/6/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:07:37.828516+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."
}