# The Postal Services Act 2011 (Transfer of Accrued Pension Rights) Order 2012, Rule 2: Civil Partners

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(1) References in the RMSPS to a “spouse” shall include a “civil partner”; references to a “widow” or “widower” shall include a “surviving civil partner”; references to “marriage” shall include a “civil partnership”; references to “marry” or “married” shall include “form a civil partnership” or “a participant in a civil partnership” as the context requires; and references to “divorce” shall include “dissolution of a civil partnership” (where the term “civil partner” has the meaning given to it in the Civil Partnership Act 2004).
(2) Nothing in this Clause 2 is intended to override the provisions of the Section A Rules (or the equivalent provisions of the RMPP Cut-Off Date Rules that apply to Former RMPP Section A Members or Cut-Off Date Non-Actives who are former members of the non-contributory part of the RMPP, as applicable to such members under Clause 3) (Benefits payable in respect of Wholly Transferred Beneficiaries) as they relate to civil partners.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/687/schedule/1/part/I/rule/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-act-2011-transfer-of-accrued-pension-rights-order-2012/schedule-1/part-I/rule-2
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