Paragraph 4 Amendment of article 27 (pensions to widows and widowers)
Article 27 shall be amended as follows—
(1)
for the heading substitute “Pensions to surviving spouses and surviving civil partners”;
(2)
for the words “widow or widower” there shall be substituted “surviving spouse or surviving civil partner”;
(3)
for the word “spouse's” there shall be substituted “spouse’s or civil partner's”; and
(4)
after the word “spouse” (in each place) there shall be inserted “or civil partner”.